Abstract
When any idea or thought is brought from one culture to another, it usually undergoes some change ; and the way of change depends mainly on the conditions of the society which receives it. In other words the way of the response to the new culture reveals the recipient society itself.
If it is followed chronologically how James Joyce was received in Japan, the social-cultural history of Japan of that period may, though partially, be illuminated. Unlike other foreign writers, James Joyce's influence upon Japanese literary mind, either directly or indirectly, was extraordinarily big. It was because at that time Japan was just in the midst of great and rapid change both materially and morally : the second daybreak of modern times in Japan.
In this paper, some thirteen years, from his first introduction into Japan in 1918 (the 7th year of Taisho) until the peak of his boom in 1931 (the 6th year of Showa), is to be studied chiefly through the journalism.
