TY - BOOK ID - 78775534 TI - Closed linguistic space : censorship by the occupation forces and postwar Japan AU - Etō, Jun AU - Nihon Kokusai Mondai Kenkyūjo AU - Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture PY - 2020 SN - 9784866581149 486658114X PB - Tōkyō, Japan : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC), DB - UniCat KW - J3389 KW - J4000.90 KW - J4126 KW - Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- Shōwa period -- World War II -- occupation period (1945-1952) KW - Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- media and (mass) communications KW - Censorship KW - Freedom of the press KW - Postwar reconstruction. KW - Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948. KW - History KW - Japan KW - Politics and government KW - Postwar reconstruction KW - Censorship. KW - Freedom of the press. KW - Politics and government. KW - Ken'etsu. KW - Senryō seisaku-Nihon. KW - History. KW - 1945-1989 KW - United States KW - Japan. KW - Foreign relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78775534 AB - "The United States postwar occupation of Japan likes to boast of having given the Japanese freedom of expression and freedom of the press. True, it freed the Japanese press from many wartime constraints. But at the same time, it imposed a large number of new constraints, replacing wartime censorship by the Japanese government with postwar censorship by the American occupation authority. Even before the war ended, planning for the occupation included a censorship and public relations effort that would work to "re-educate" the Japanese and fold them into the postwar American international order. Similar efforts were made in Germany, but the effort in Japan was far more sweeping and far more sustained. This book documents that history in detail with extensive references to primary resources held in U.S. archives and elsewhere. Was the occupation successful in reshaping the Japanese mindset? Citing not only the postwar Constitution but also, among other things, the widespread belief in the Tokyo Trials' validity, Etō argues doggedly that it was so successful that its pernicious influence persists even today. Yet the heart of this heavily researched book is its meticulous documentation of how this censorship was planned and enforced."--Dust jacket. ER -