Prange Digital Children's Book Collection

The Gordon W. Prange Collection contains more than 8,000 children's book titles.  They include 1,608 picture books (ehon), 2,069 comics (manga), 4,275 story books (yomimono), and a few other formats of materials, such as board games and coloring books.  These children’s books are file copies of the Civil Censorship Detachment (CCD), which operated between 1945-1949, the first four years of the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952). They bear censorship markings, including CCD stamps and numbers, examination dates and, occasionally, action taken, such as a disapproval or violation. 
 

This collection is moving to the new digital collections repository. For an interim period, search functionality is split between two older tools.

• Classic Search (featured above) lets you search in English and Japanese and filter on Place of Publication, Censorship Actions, and Years of Publication.
• Legacy Search lets you search for English phrases using quotation marks and filter on Years of Publication.