This is an illustration of total suppression of a short story, "Letters of Mrs. A," by occupation censors. It occured early in the Occupation, January 1946. The author, Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, was Japan’s most distinguished and hihgest paid novelist. He had also been subjected to censorship by Japanese officials. To show his displeasure, he published "Letters to Mrs. A" in the same magazine in January 1950, shortly after occupation censorship ended.

From: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō. "Mrs. A’s Letters" ["Fujin no tegami"]. Chūō Koronsha. Tokyo, 1946. Gordon W. Prange Collection, University of Maryland Libraries.