Kyoko Omori, associate professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese), presented a talk titled “The Audacity of Radio: Democracy, Censorship, and the Political Satire of Miki Toriro in Occupied Japan” at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs on Nov. 19.
The talk examined the politics of media stardom in occupied Japan by reviewing the early career of Miki Toriro (1914-94), arguably the most popular radio star in the immediate post-WWII years.
