{"id":3355,"date":"2018-04-13T15:33:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T06:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2018-04-13T15:33:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T06:33:22","slug":"international-censorship-workshop-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-en\/2018\/04\/13\/3355\/","title":{"rendered":"International Censorship Workshop Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global Japanese Studies Model Unit: International Censorship Workshop Report<\/h3>\n

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January 26, 2018 (Fri.)
\nPart 1: 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Masaru Ibuka Auditorium, Waseda University
\nPart 2: 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm Conference Room Three, Waseda University International Conference Center
\nSponsored by: Waseda University’s Global Japanese Studies Model Unit, Top Global University Project
\nCo-sponsored by: Waseda University Research Institute for Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Ryusaku Tsunoda Center of Japanese CultureModerator: Hiroki Matsumoto (Guest Associate Professor, Waseda University Research Council)<\/p>\n

Part 1
\nOpening remarks: Yasushi Oyabu (Senior Dean, Waseda University Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences)
\nKeynote: Robert Campbell (Director, National Institute of Japanese Literature)
\nKeynote: Kazushige Munakata (Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences)<\/p>\n

Part 2
\nYoung Researchers\u2019 Roundtable: Censorship and Literary Studies Today
\nReport: Yoshiyuki Maki (Research Associate, Nagano Prefectural College)
\nReport: Natsuko Ozaki (Instructor, Hirosaki University)
\nReport: Ryu Murayama (Adjunct Instructor, Keio University)
\nReport: Kim Young-Long (Guest Assistant Professor, Waseda University)
\nReport: Akito Sakasai (Senior Assistant Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
\nCommentators: Robert Campbell (Director, National Institute of Japanese Literature), David Lurie (Associate Professor, Columbia University), Kazushige Munakata (Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences)
\nClosing remarks: Lee Sung-si (Professor, Waseda University)<\/p>\n

This workshop was sponsored by Waseda University’s Global Japanese Studies Model Unit of the Top Global University Project and co-sponsored by the Waseda University Research Institute for Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Ryusaku Tsunoda Center of Japanese Culture. Over 100 participants attended, including researchers, faculty members, and students from Waseda University and other institutions, reaffirming the interest that studies into censorship attract within academia.<\/p>\n

Part 1 of the workshop began with opening remarks by Professor Yasushi Oyabu, senior dean of Waseda University’s Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences. After these remarks the first keynote talk, titled \u201cPopcorn on the Ginza\u2014Urban Representation and Literature in Japan during the Occupation Period,\u201d was given by Dr. Robert Campbell (Director, National Institute of Japanese Literature). The talk was novel; it focused on the particular space that was the Ginza area in the context of the active research into the censorship instituted by GHQ\/SCAP during the US occupation period in Japan. This jam-packed talk, which interrogated urban expression by both the occupiers and the occupied through newly available sources\u2014including telephone interviews with people who experienced Ginza under occupation and photographs\u2014was met with lengthy applause.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Campbell gave a Keynote speech<\/p><\/div>\n

The second keynote was given by Professor Kazushige Munakata of Waseda University. In his talk, titled \u201cOn the \u2018Censorship\u2019 of Early Modern Literature,\u201d the professor summarized the findings that research into systems of censorship have contributed to the study of early modern literature, analyzed the current state of this research, and suggested questions for future study. Professor Munakata stressed the importance of paying attention to how censorship is a system that, like the lines on a sheet of writing paper, restricts the act of writing while, in as natural-seeming a way as possible, attempts to conceal that it is even a system at all. This perspective should leave quite the impression on not only researchers but all those who live in today’s era.<\/p>\n

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Professor Munakata gave a keynote speech<\/p><\/div>\n

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After the overview of new perspectives on research into censorship and the details of such research in Part 1, there was a break. Part 2 of the workshop began within the \u201cYoung Researchers\u2019 Roundtable: Censorship and Literary Studies Today.\u201d Despite the academic subject matter, this roundtable attracted an audience far exceeding expectations.<\/p>\n

As Part 2 commenced, five young researchers reported on their latest research, which was based on newly available materials.<\/p>\n

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The Part2 session<\/p><\/div>\n

The first person to report, Dr. Yoshiyuki Maki (Research Associate, Nagano Prefectural College) gave a presentation titled \u201cOn the Relationship Between Publication Police and Libraries Before and During World War II: Deciphering Official Documents.\u201d This was the first time that the ways in which libraries engaged in the control of books during the war was explicated.<\/p>\n

Next, Dr. Natsuko Ozaki (Instructor, Hirosaki University) highlighted the case of the publisher Iwanami Bunko amid the Home Ministry’s censorship regime in her presentation \u201cOn the Censorship of Iwanami Bunko.\u201d The long list of research materials that Dr. Ozaki presented portended that research into this series of books and the censorship thereof would be a massive project.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the presentation by Dr. Ryu Murayama (Adjunct Instructor, Keio University)\u2014entitled \u201cAn Investigation of the Course of Revisions to the \u2018Rule Directing an Improvement of Children’s Reading\u2019\u201d and concerning censorship by the Home Ministry during the war\u2014employed careful analysis of, as its title suggests, the process of revising the rule in an attempt to find new research developments in the study of children’s literature authors and censorship.<\/p>\n

The presentation by Dr. Kim Young-Long (Guest Assistant Professor, Waseda University) was titled \u201cOn the Reading Behavior of Censorship Bodies during the Occupation: With an Emphasis on the Tokyo Military Tribunals and Censorship.\u201d It took up literary works that depicted the Tokyo Tribunals and discussed documents relating to censorship. Dr. Kim thus analyzed the complex reading behaviors in which censors can be surmised to have engaged.<\/p>\n

The presentation by Dr. Akito Sakasai (Senior Assistant Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), \u201cLiterature by Koreans in Japan and Self-Censorship: With a Focus on the Works of Kim Tal-su,\u201d also dealt with censorship during the occupation of Japan but brought to the surface new issues of censorship, not understandable under the dichotomy of the occupiers versus the occupied, by considering issues relating to literature by Koreans living in Japan.<\/p>\n

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Panelists of the session Part2<\/p><\/div>\n

In response to these presentations, the three commentators\u2014Dr. Robert Campbell (Director, National Institute of Japanese Literature), Dr. David Lurie (Associate Professor, Columbia University), and Professor Kazushige Munakata (Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences)\u2014provided valuable comments that added further breadth to what each presenter had reported. Their wide-ranging comments held the prospect of pointing to future directions for systematic research into the topic of censorship by raising questions, such as how to understand \u201ccensorship-like phenomena\u201d (apart from systems of censorship themselves) that arise when restrictions are internalized and what to think about the existence of censors who understood literature well.<\/p>\n

Finally, Waseda University’s Professor Lee Sung-si used his closing remarks to note the importance of censorship research, and the International Censorship Workshop concluded a rousing success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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