Editing Occupation of Japan (section)

=== Censorship ===
{{See also|Censorship in Japan#Occupation of Japan|Rape during the occupation of Japan#Allied censorship of Japanese media|Civil Censorship Detachment}}

After the [[surrender of Japan]] in 1945, SCAP abolished all forms of Japanese censorship and controls on [[freedom of speech]], which would later be enshrined in Article 21 of the 1947 [[Constitution of Japan]]. However, two weeks into the Occupation, SCAP began censoring all media; on September 10, 1945, SCAP "issued press and pre-censorship codes outlawing the publication of all reports and statistics 'inimical to the objectives of the Occupation'."{{sfn|Takemae|2002|p=67}} This included any mention of rape or other sensitive social issues.<ref name = "Svoboda2">{{Citation | url = http://japanfocus.org/-Terese-Svoboda/3148 | contribution = U.S. Courts-Martial in Occupation Japan: Rape, Race, and Censorship | author-link = Terese Svoboda | first = Terèse | last = Svoboda | title = The Asia-Pacific Journal | volume = 21-1-09 | date = May 23, 2009 | access-date = January 30, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120129114944/http://www.japanfocus.org/-Terese-Svoboda/3148 | archive-date = January 29, 2012 | url-status = live }}.</ref>{{sfn|Dower|1999|p=412}}

According to David M. Rosenfeld:
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 | Not only did Occupation censorship forbid criticism of the United States or other Allied nations, but the mention of censorship itself was forbidden. This means, as [[Donald Keene]] observes, that for some producers of texts "the Occupation censorship was even more exasperating than Japanese military censorship had been because it insisted that all traces of censorship be concealed. This meant that articles had to be rewritten in full, rather than merely submitting XXs for the offending phrases."
 | Donald Keene
 | quoted in ''Dawn to the West''<ref>David M. Rosenfeld, ''Dawn to the West'', New York: Henry Holt, 1984), p. 967, quoting from [[Donald Keene]] in [https://books.google.com/books?id=iIeyCNiD43sC&dq=criticism+censorship+Germany+allied+occupation&pg=PA86 ''Unhappy Soldier: Hino Ashihei and Japanese World War II Literature''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160517163258/https://books.google.com/books?id=iIeyCNiD43sC&pg=PA86&dq=criticism+censorship+Germany+allied+occupation&lr=&as_brr=3&sig=ACfU3U3ht1X9rb44TcaJIy7_PKv0Eff4yw |date=2016-05-17 }}, p. 86.</ref>
}}<!--- Allied censorship in Japan not only forbade criticism of the U.S. and other Allies "but the mention of censorship itself was forbidden." All traces of censorship had to be concealed, thus exasperating publicists since they could no longer simply redact material that the authorities found sensitive as had been done during the war, but instead had to rewrite the full text.<ref>David M. Rosenfeld "Unhappy Soldier: Hino Ashihei and Japanese World War II Literature" p. 86. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=iIeyCNiD43sC&pg=PA86&dq=criticism+censorship+Germany+allied+occupation&lr=&as_brr=3&sig=ACfU3U3ht1X9rb44TcaJIy7_PKv0Eff4yw Google books])</ref> --->