Introduction: Negotiating Censorship In Modern Japan / Rachael Hutchinson -- Censorship And Patronage In Meiji Kabuki / Rachel Payne -- Seditious Obscenity, Obscene Seditions: The Radical Eroticism Of Umehara Hokumei / Jonathan Abel -- The Censor As Critic: Ogawa Chikagoro And Popular Music Censorship In Imperial Japan / Hiromu Nagahara -- Kawabata's Wartime Message In Beautiful Voyage (utsukushii Tabi) / Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase -- Banned Books In The Hands Of Japanese Librarians: From Meiji To Postwar / Sharon Domier -- Self-censorship: The Case Of Wartime Japanese Poetry / Leith Morton -- Kurosawa Akira's One Wonderful Sunday: Censorship, Context And Counter-discursive Film / Rachael Hutchinson -- Censoring Tamura Taijiro's Biography Of A Prostitute (shunpuden) / Eleanor Kerkham -- Censoring Imperial Honorifics: A Linguistic Analysis Of Occupation Censorship In Newspapers And Literature / Noriko Akimoto Sugimori -- Art Il-legally Defined? A Legal And Art Historical Analysis Of Akasegawa Genpei's Model Thousand-yen Note Incident / Yayoi Shionoiri -- Parodying The Censor And Censoring Parody In Modern Japan / Kirsten Cather. Edited By Rachael Hutchinson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.