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Author Wong, Heung Wah, 1963- author.

Title Censorship in Japan
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages)
Series Routledge Culture, Society, Business in East Asia Ser
Routledge culture, society, business in East Asia series.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chinese glossary -- Japanese glossary -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Major analytical themes -- Conceptual schemes -- Methodology -- Organisation of the book -- Notes -- Chapter 2 A brief history of censorship in Japan -- Introduction -- Early censorship in imperial Japan -- Meiji period -- Taishō and Shōwa periods -- Post-war Japan -- From state censorship to self-regulating or industrial inspection -- After all, what is waisetsu? -- Conclusion
Notes -- Chapter 3 What are Japanese adult videos? -- Introduction -- A brief history of Japanese adult videos -- Tantai and kikaku AVs -- The saviour ideology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The society of the Japanese adult video industry: AV studios, regulators, and distributors -- Introduction -- The organisation of AV makers as a society of industry -- Small AV studios -- Wholesalers and rental shops -- Biderin as the most dominant self-regulatory body in the AV industry -- Conclusion -- Notes
Chapter 5 How the Biderin regime was founded: Biderin as the self-regulatory body in the AV industry in the 1980s and 1990s -- Introduction -- Biderin as a self-regulatory body -- The organisation of Biderin -- The relationship between Biderin and the state (police) -- Control of wholesalers and rental shop owners -- Biderin and AV makers -- Inspection process -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Medirin: The emergence of a new regime in the AV industry -- Introduction -- The concept of social drama -- The breaching stage -- The crisis stage: Medirin getting recognition -- Conclusion -- Notes
Chapter 7 From Biderin via Medirin to Eizōrin: The collapse of Biderin and the return to order -- Introduction -- Redressive phase: The Biderin Incident in 2008 -- The new 'censoring' body: Eizōrin -- Reintegration -- The search for a new order -- Play and games -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Adult video inspection at Eizōrin -- Introduction -- Inspecting adult videos at Eizōrin -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Changing landscapes: The emergence of a new categorical classification of Japanese AVs -- Introduction
Medirin and AVs-for-sale as radicalisation and genre reunification of kikaku AVs -- The changing AV landscape -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Notes Print version record
Subject Motion pictures -- Censorship -- Japan
Television -- Censorship -- Japan
Motion picture industry -- Japan
Television broadcasting -- Japan
Motion picture industry
Motion pictures -- Censorship
Television broadcasting
Television -- Censorship
Japan
Form Electronic book
Author Yau, Hoi-yan, author.
ISBN 1315409054
9781315409054