The Library’s Asian Division has digitized an archive comprising more
than 1,000 marked-up copies of monographs and galley proofs censored by
the Japanese government in the 1920s and 1930s. The Japanese Censorship Collection
reveals traces of an otherwise-hidden censorship process through
marginal notes, stamps, penciled lines and commentary inscribed by the
censors’ own hands.
Each of these books is “uniquely different from all other existing
copies and editions of similar titles in Japan and elsewhere, making
this collection a rich archive here at the Library of Congress for the
historical study of censorship,” said Librarian of Congress Carla
Hayden.
In prewar World War II Japan, the Home Ministry was among the most
powerful of government entities. Not only was it tasked with censoring
publications, it also held jurisdiction over police, infrastructure,
elections, public health and religious affairs. Following Japan’s
defeat, the ministry’s censorship library was seized by the Allied
forces and sent to the Washington Document Center in the United States.
It was later transferred to the Library of Congress, along with
massive volumes of books and other materials requisitioned from other
official institutions, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the
Japanese Imperial Army and the South Manchurian Railway Company. The
Library digitized the Japanese Censorship Collection in collaboration
with Japan’s National Diet Library. ... [mehr] https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/04/new-online-unique-collection-of-censored-japanese-books/
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