Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori published a book chapter titled "Rajio hôsô no sengo: 'Hanashi no izumi' to 'Nichiyô goraku-ban'" (The Allied Powers' Education and Censorship Strategies in Post-WWII Japan: Radio Broadcasting in the late 1940s).
In this chapter, Omori focuses on two Japanese radio shows, "Fountain of Talk" and "Sunday Entertainment Edition." The former was a Japanese adaptation of the American quiz show "Information Please." The latter began as a loose adaptation of another American entertainment show called "Sunday Serenade," but it soon became popular for its sharp satirical attacks on the contemporary Japanese government.
Based on her archival research at both the Gordon W. Prange Collection at the University of Maryland, as well as the NHK Broadcasting Corporation Archives in Tokyo, Omori examines how the ideology of democracy was disseminated through careful guidance and censorship by the General Headquarters/Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (GHQ/SCAP).
In this chapter, Omori focuses on two Japanese radio shows, "Fountain of Talk" and "Sunday Entertainment Edition." The former was a Japanese adaptation of the American quiz show "Information Please." The latter began as a loose adaptation of another American entertainment show called "Sunday Serenade," but it soon became popular for its sharp satirical attacks on the contemporary Japanese government.
Based on her archival research at both the Gordon W. Prange Collection at the University of Maryland, as well as the NHK Broadcasting Corporation Archives in Tokyo, Omori examines how the ideology of democracy was disseminated through careful guidance and censorship by the General Headquarters/Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (GHQ/SCAP).
