The Furyu Mutan Incident

Japanese: 風流夢譚事件 - ふうりゅうむたんじけん

Also known as the Shimanaka Incident. Right-wing groups protested against Fukazawa Shichiro's Furyu Mutan, published in the December 1960 issue of Chuokoron, claiming that the work was an insult to the Imperial Family, and put pressure on Chuokoron-Shinsha. In the midst of this, in February 1961, a boy who was a former member of the Great Japan Patriotic Party broke into the home of Shimanaka, the president of Chuokoron-Shinsha, stabbing the maid to death and seriously injuring the president's wife. Chuokoron-Shinsha eventually avoided right-wing attacks by apologizing for publishing Furyu Mutan and for "using it as a starting point to cause a murder and upsetting the public." This murder, along with the stabbing of Socialist Party Chairman Asanuma Inejiro (October 1960), was seen as a sign of the resurgence of right-wing terrorism in the postwar period, and the series of events made journalists more aware of the taboo of speaking about the Emperor. In December 1961, Chuokoron-Shinsha discontinued the publication of and cut up a special issue on the Emperor System in its magazine The Science of Thought, which it was publishing at the time (The Science of Thought Incident).

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Japanese:

嶋中事件とも。《中央公論》1960年12月号に掲載された深沢七郎《風流夢譚》について，右翼団体は，この作品は皇室を侮辱するものであるとして抗議，中央公論社に対して圧力を加えた。このなかで1961年２月，元大日本愛国党党員の少年が，中央公論社嶋中社長宅に侵入し，お手伝いさんを刺殺，社長夫人に重傷を負わせた。中央公論社は結局，《風流夢譚》の掲載，またそれを〈端緒として殺傷事件まで惹き起こし，世間をお騒がせしたこと〉を謝罪して，右翼の攻撃を回避した。この殺傷事件は，浅沼稲次郎社会党委員長刺殺事件（1960年10月）とともに，戦後における右翼テロリズムの復活を示すものとされ，また一連の事態は，天皇に関する言論のタブーをジャーナリズムに意識させた。中央公論社は1961年12月，当時同社から発売していた《思想の科学》天皇制特集号の発売を中止，断裁した（《思想の科学》事件）。

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