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Literature, Ideology and Japan's Revised Education Law: Kinoshita Junji's Yuzuru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Takashima Nobuyoshi  and
Kyoko Seldenz
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Three national newspapers and Nihon Keizai Shimbun headlined the death of playwright and preeminent Shakespeare translator Kinoshita Junji on December 1, 2006. This article considers the fate of his classic play Yuzuru (Twilight Crane), once condemned as “one-sided” (or “ideologically biased”) and inappropriate as teaching material, only to be resurrected a generation later. The article was published in Shukan Kinyobi on December 15, 2006, the same day that the Education Reform Bill passed the Upper House of the Diet.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 12 , December 2006 , e20
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