Dr. Rachael Hutchinson presented a paper entitled “Censorship as Education: film violence and ideology” at the International Symposium “Unfreedom of Expression: Self-Censorship and Imagination in the Media,” at Nagoya University’s Japan-in-Asia Research Center in January 2015. She traced the impact of censorship regulations on the representation of violence in Japanese film from 1917 to the present. Specific case studies included Kurosawa Akira’s films Seven Samurai, Rashomon, and Yojimbo, as well as Fukasaku Kinji’s Battles without Honor or Humanity and Battle Royale.