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Was Akutagawa's ShÅgun ("The General") ever censored in Japan? If so, how?
I have a clearish answer to the main question: It wasn't overtly banned, but it was indeed altered, as James Dorsey explains in Critical Aesthetics: Kobayashi Hideo, Modernity, and Wartime Japan.
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