Organized by Tomi Suzuki, Hirokazu Toeda, Hikari Hori, Kim Brandt

This two-day international symposium takes both diachronic (historical) and synchronic (cross-media) approaches, seeking to bring recent research on early modern censorship into dialogue with studies of 19th and 20th century Japanese literary and visual culture. The symposium begins with Edo-period print culture and kabuki theatre, examines prewar literature, analyzes newsreels and popular visual materials from World War II through the Occupation period, as well as Occupation-period literature, film, and popular culture, and finally concludes with research on contemporary linguistic regulations in Japan.

Schedule

Friday, March 6 (9:15 AM-5:30 PM)
8:45-9:15 am	Registration (prior reservation required)
9:15-9:35 am	Opening Remarks
	Tomi Suzuki (Columbia University)
9:40-10:00 am	Special Remarks
	Donald Keene (Columbia University)
	"Censorship and Unwritten Works"
10:00-11:50 am	Session 1: Censorship of Print Media and Kabuki: from Edo to Meiji
	Sarah Thompson (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
	"Patterns of Censorship in Ukiyo-e Prints"
	Misa Umetada (Waseda University Theater Museum)
	"Censorship of Kabuki Theater: From Kansei to the Early Meiji Period" [presentation in Japanese]
	Robert Hewitt (Columbia University)
	"Pushing Boundaries: Popular Fiction and Censorship in Tokugawa Japan at the Turn of the 19th century"
	Chair: Haruo Shirane (Columbia University)
1:00-2:00 pm	Keynote Speech I
	Kenko Kawasaki (Waseda University)
	"Hisao Jūran and the Censorship of Shōwa Modernist Literature" [presentation in Japanese]
2:10-3:30 pm	Session 2: Prewar to the Occupation Period Censorship of Literature
	Cecile Sakai (Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot)
	"Censorship and Auto-Censorship as a Continuum: Kawabata Yasunari's Yukiguni and a Few Other Works"
	Anne Bayard-Sakai (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales)
	"Real Censorship and Fantasized Reading: The Case of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō"
	Chair: Paul Anderer (Columbia University)
3:45-5:30 pm	Session 3: Censorship Research Workshop
	Anri Yasuda (Columbia University/Waseda University)
	"Beyond-Isms: Mori Ōgai and the High Treason Case"
	Robert Tuck (Columbia University/Waseda University)
	"Shō Nihon and Sociality: Media, Censorship and Masaoka Shiki"
	Nathan Shockey (Columbia University/Waseda University)
	"Words Within Walls: The Prison Writings of Hayama Yoshiki"
	Christina Yi (Columbia University)
	"Doubled Ambiguities: Yi Kwang-su and the Contradictions of Imperial Space"
	Chairs: Hirokazu Toeda (Waseda University)            Tomi Suzuki (Columbia University)
Saturday, March 7 (10:00AM-5:50PM)
9:30-10:00 am	Registration (prior reservation required, see below)
10:00-11:40 am	Session 4: Prewar-Occupation Period Censorship of Visual Media
	Sharalyn Orbaugh (University of British Columbia)
	"How The Pendulum Swings: Kamishibai and Censorship, 1939-1952"
	Jonathan Abel (Pennsylvania State University)
	"Marking Deletion Under Censorship: The Transwar Aesthetics of Redaction in Japan"
	Hikari Hori (Columbia University)
	"Nationalization and Representation of the Body: Public Sphere in Nippon News (1940-1951)"
	Chair: Kim Brandt (Columbia University)
11:50-12:50 pm	Keynote Speech II
	Hirokazu Toeda (Waseda University)
	"Censorship and Literary Expression in Occupation-Period Magazines: On the Kamakura Bunko Magazines" [presentation in Japanese]
2:00-3:45 pm	Session 5: Occupation-Period Censorship of Film and Popular Culture
	Takeshi Tanikawa (Waseda University)
	"Editing Occupation-Period Magazine Sources—Series on Popular Culture: The Cross-Genre Activities of Occupation-Period Culture Creators"
	Kyoko Hirano (Temple University Japan Campus)
	"US Occupation Policy on Japanese Cinema"
	Chair: Marlene Mayo (University of Maryland)
4:00-5:40 pm	Session 6: Occupation to Post-Occupation Censorship
	Yuri Tokinoya (Waseda University/Columbia University)
	"Sakaguchi Ango and the Lady Chatterley Trials"
	Ann Sherif (Oberlin College)
	"Why Censor Lady Chatterley? Sex and Democracy after 1945"
	Yukari Tanaka (Nihon University)
	"Censorship and Regulations in Linguistic Landscape: Tokyo in the Occupation Period and the Present" [presentation in Japanese]
	Chair: Gregory Pflugfelder (Columbia University)
5:40-5:50 pm	Concluding Remarks