Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan

Acknowledgments

xi Over the course of more than a decade working on this project, I have received the generous assistance of many people and institutions. During my graduate work at Princeton, I was lucky to find support, stimulation, and encouragement from several advisors. Richard Okada and Christine Marran taught me to read anew. Eduardo Cadava and Michael Wood helped hone my argument and thinking. Sandra Bermann, April Alliston, and Tom Hare were all instrumental in the final push to defend the project at the dissertation stage. Much of the research for this project was carried out in Tokyo. I am grateful for the generosity of the Fulbright Hays, which supported my initial Japanese research in Tokyo in 2002–2003. At Tokyo University, Komori Yōichi supported my research and shared his time and ideas with me. I thank Andō Hiroshi for allowing me to audit his seminar at that time and for confirming my Dazai Osamu findings in 2009. On a trip to Nagasaki in 2008, I was very fortunate to be able to meet with Yokote Kazuhiko and benefited from his vast knowledge of Occupation and Imperial censorship when he visited the United States in 2009. I thank Itō Naoko and the entire Hirahara family for their hospitality. I was fortunate to benefit from a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute. The continuing support of Carol Gluck has been invaluable and inspirational. I am grateful to Andrew Gordon and Theodore Gilman at Harvard’s Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies for granting me the opportunity to complete a draft of the manuscript as a Postdoctoral Fellow there. I would also like to thank Jay Rubin, Karen Thornber, James Dorsey, Mellisa Wender, and especially Kirsten Cather for reading an early draft and participating in a writing workshop sponsored by the Center. Their critiques were quite literally Acknowledgments xii / Acknowledgments constructive, leading to the expansion of my fuseji chapter into the four chapters here. Many colleagues and friends at Princeton, Columbia, Tokyo University, Bowling Green, Penn State, and beyond have come to my aid. I thank Shion Kono, Jason Webb, Michael Hill, Eric Dinmore, Lisa Hosokawa, Stacy Nakamura, Julia Zarankin, Amanda Irwin Wilkins, Dirk (Max) Kramer, Beau Mount, Yoshikuni Hiroki, Sari Kawana, Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Steven Clarke Ridgely, Jonathan Zwicker, and Kevin Tsai all of whom have helped since graduate school. Theodore Rippey and Edgar Landgraff led me to refine arguments about Area Studies. Sophia McClennan, Shuang Shen, Charlotte Eubanks, and Thomas O. Beebee helped in the final stages. Caroline Eckhardt gave me the necessary push to send out the manuscript. Reiko Tachibana and Eric Hayot have lent inspirational support through the process. Fleeting encounters with a handful of scholars, librarians, and hobbyists resulted in significant contributions to the book. I am in debt to Ueno Chizuko, Tōeda Hirokazu, Kōno Kensuke, Ōtaki Noritada, Sharon Domier, Yasuko Makino, Miwa Kai, Yoshiko Yoshimura, Okuizumi Eizaburo, Gregory Kasza, Jō Ichirō, and Sasaki Hiroaki. Of all of my dealings with archives, none were so congenial as those with the Archive of Modern Literature of Kanagawa Prefecture. The curator and librarian Tanaka Yoshie was instrumental in helping me gain access to key manuscripts by Ōoka Shōhei, Yoshida Mitsuru, and others. I would like to thank Ōoka Harue for her permission to see and even photograph portions of Ōoka Shōhei’s manuscripts and Yoshida Yoshiko for permission to see and photograph a draft of Yoshida Mitsuru’s manuscript. I am also grateful to Chihara Kōichirō for lending me his transcription of the Yoshida manuscript. I could not have completed this manuscript research without my Japanese teachers at the Inter-University Center in Yokohama or the Blakemore Foundation Language Grant that allowed me to study there; special thanks are due to Ōtake Hiroko. I would also like to thank Dr. Alice L. Birney at the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress and Sakaguchi Eiko at the Prange Collection of the University of Maryland. Tak Fujitani has been endlessly encouraging and helpful. Dan Rivero at Weatherhead and Mari Coates and Reed Malcolm at UC Press have been patient with my questions about the publishing process throughout. With the generous funding of the 2011 Weatherhead East Asian Institute First Book Prize, I benefited from the thoughtful editing of Susan Whitlock who tamed the manuscript, and Margaret Case who cracked the introduction. Acknowledgments / xiii First familial thanks go to my mother...