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See also: Censorship in Japan, CIA Activities in Japan, and U.S Occupation of Japan.
The Civil Censorship Detachment (CCD) was a department created within the Civil Intelligence Division (CID) under the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP), tasked with monitoring and censoring Japanese entertainment, mass media, and other forms of public and private opinion during the reconstruction period of Japan in the post-World War II period. [1]
The CCD would exist from September 10th to the end of the occupation in 1952, and would cover a wide range of subjects from Japanese actions during the war to abuses and severe crimes committed by the Occupation soldiers.[2]
In order to promote pro-Western values of democracy and to usher Japan towards the reconstruction period, the CCD censored all speech deemed harmful in relation to the war, reconstruction, and the new alliance between the two countries. The consequence was Japanese victims such as the hibakusha, individuals who experienced physical change due to radiation exposure, and Japanese victims of rape by occupied soldiers had their stories censored by the CCD.[3][2]