The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan

by Shiro Okamoto and Okamoto Shiro

As part of its program to promote democracy in Japan after World War II, the American Occupation, headed by General Douglas MacArthur, undertook to enforce rigid censorship policies aimed at eliminating all traces of feudal thought in media and entertainment, including kabuki. Faubion Bowers (1917-1999), who served as personal aide and interpreter to MacArthur during the Occupation, was appalled by the censorship policies and anticipated the extinction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824824415
• ISBN13: 9780824824419
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"