Editing Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo (The Simpsons) (section)

==Censorship/Controversy==

"Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" is one of two episodes that never aired in Japan (the other being the Season 11 episode "Little Big Mom", banned for featuring leprosy). The reasoning behind this was that a scene in the episode, which shows Homer throwing Akih, the then current emperor of Japan, into a box filled with sumo thongs, was considered disrespectful. There was also a rumor that Sanrio and Hello Kitty creator Yuko Shimizu were outraged by the inclusion of the Hello Kitty factory featured briefly in the episode. The episode has become study material for sociology courses at University of California Berkeley, where it is used to "examine issues of the production and reception of cultural objects, in this case, a satirical cartoon show", and to figure out what it is "trying to tell audiences about aspects primarily of American society, and, to a lesser extent, about other societies".




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