Staff writer

KYOTO -- In an age when censorship of the media is a pressing issue, an exhibition currently being held at Ritsumeikan International Peace Museum here shows the convolutions such information control took over half a century ago.

The Allied Occupation of Japan that began in September 1945 was the start of one of the most ambitious experiments in the history of nation-building, and its purpose, according to leaders, was nothing less than depriving the nation of the means to wage war again and the re-education of the Japanese.