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Banned and restricted books in Japan
8 titles have been banned or restricted in Japan, recorded across 8 dated, source-cited events, most often for political content.
Titles
8
Ban events
8
Top reason
Political content
Decades active
8
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperialism: The Spectre of the Twentieth Century | Kōtoku Shūsui | 1901 | 1 |
| A Handful of Sand | Ishikawa Takuboku | 1910 | 1 |
| The Factory Ship | Takiji Kobayashi | 1929 | 1 |
| Barefoot Gen | Keiji Nakazawa | 1973 | 1 |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover | D.H. Lawrence | 1928 | 1 |
| Little Black Sambo | Helen Bannerman | 1899 | 1 |
| The Prosperity of Vice | Marquis de Sade | — | 1 |
| In the Realm of the Senses | Nagisa Oshima | — | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Political content
- 4
- Obscenity
- 3
- Violence
- 1
- Sexual content
- 1
By decade
1890s1
1900s1
1910s1
1920s1
1950s1
1960s1
1970s1
2010s1
Documented bans
All 8 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
Barefoot Gen2013
In the Realm of the Senses1976
The Prosperity of Vice1960
Lady Chatterley's Lover1950
The Factory Ship1929
A Handful of Sand1910
Imperialism: The Spectre of the Twentieth Century1901
Little Black Sambo1899
Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.