

What is the target of censorship in the Library Wars (Toshokan Sensō 図書館戦争)
franchise? Is it political material, sexual material, or something else?


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What is the target of censorship in Library Wars?


> The premise of Toshokan Sensō involves the Japanese government passing the
> Media Betterment Act (MBA) as law in 1989 which allows the censorship of any
> media deemed to be potentially harmful to Japanese society by deploying
> agents in the Media Betterment Committee (MBC) with the mandate to go after
> individuals and organizations that are trying to exercise the act of
> conducting freedom of expression activities in the media. -
> [wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshokan_Sens%C5%8D)

My interpretation is that the censorship is for everything you mentioned and
anything else anyone can think of that would be "harmful to society". Just
look at [the list of frequently challenged
books](http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks).

This is the top 10 list for 2012:

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    Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey.
    Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group
    
    The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie.
    Reasons: Offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group
    
    Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher.
    Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, suicide, unsuited for age group
    
    Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James.
    Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit
    
    And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson.
    Reasons: Homosexuality, unsuited for age group
    
    The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.
    Reasons: Homosexuality, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit
    
    Looking for Alaska, by John Green.
    Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group
    
    Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
    Reasons: Unsuited for age group, violence
    
    The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls
    Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit
    
    Beloved, by Toni Morrison
    Reasons: Sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, violence
    
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