Commentary / Japan | THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK Nov 27, 2014

Censorship distortion of 'comfort women'

by Hiroaki Sato

When Toho Studios wanted to turn "The Life of an Alluring Woman" into a film, U.S. censors stepped in multiple times to demand script revisions.

The wonderful world of Japanese law: <i>Yōkoso</i> to endless discovery

Issues | LAW OF THE LAND Oct 16, 2013

The wonderful world of Japanese law: Yōkoso to endless discovery

by Colin P.A. Jones

The legal system is designed to keep the order by protecting the old. This is one of the deep structural issues that make it so hard to do new, disruptive things in Japan.

TOKYO (2 a.m.)

U.S. Occupation