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Toshihiko Izu
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In Tokuno-Goro-no-seikatsu-to-iken, Sei Ito depicted the life of a Japanese intellectual in Paris who had no courage to face realities, felt strong anxiety about the future, and clung to his petit bourgeois happiness when Germany was about to invade France and conquer the capital. The intellectual named Goro Tokuno could not but feel helpless because his philosophical and literary knowledge seemed to be nothing in front of cruel realities. Covered with a giant wave of the war and lost in the impersonal process of history, he desperately tried to recover himself and find some way-out in literature. In a sense, we can find our own fate in Goro's anguish and struggle, because we now live in situations almost as critical as those in wartime. In this age of unsteadiness it is worth re-reading the text.
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Yokichi Sugino
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Here I will make an attempt to define "literature of the 1940s" with a keyword "nature." In so doing, I would like to raise two questions in the following way. How did writers see nature which was daily being destroyed and devastated in the middle of the war? And how did they both literarily and historically treat and construct in after the war? The keyword will give a new clue to understanding not only the literary works of the decade but also twentieth-century literature in general.
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Hideto Tsuboi
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On August 15, 1945, the Pacific War was over with the Emperor's declaration of defeat on the radio. But probably few people understood exactly what the Emperor said, partly because his voice was lost in such terrible noise that it could be hardly heard. Ironically, due to such a technological deficiency, the Emperor's voice assumed a kind of "aura" and played a part in containing Japan's defeat into a mere episode in the whole history of the emperor system. As will be shown in this essay, this strategy of historical containment is epitomized in Kotaro Takamura's view of the war and the defeat in his war poems.
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Izumi Sato
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In 1942, a forum entitled "Getting over Modernity" was held on the literary magazine Bungakukai. Tetsutaro Kawakami, the organizer of the forum, was a famous literary critic who was greatly influenced by Paul Valery's semi-political essays. He thought of Japan as one of the nations which should most seriously listen to the French poet's warning of the crisis of Western civilization. Later, after the end of World War II, the Chinese literature scholar Yoshimi Takeuchi took up the issue presented at the forum and found in it the dilemma of modernization in Asia. But, as will be discussed in this essay, their anxiety over modernization seems now very problematic precisely because they thought of culture on the basis of such entities as the "nation-state," the "Western World," and "Asia" without questioning their validity.
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Hideki Nagano
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Soon after the end of the war Kazuo Dan started his own theatrical company Sango-za in Fukuoka. Here I will briefly sketch the activities of Dan's and some other theatrical groups in Fukuoka and show an aspect of the theater movement which suddenly flourished in the early postwar period. Chiefly reading the writing by Tomoya Tanamachi who then worked for the GHQ and published a theatrical magazine Ridou, I will demonstrate that the postwar theater movement was not distinct from but closely related to dramatic performances in the army in wartime and literary activities in the prewar period.
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Ken Kurumizawa
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The 1940s saw a fad for haiku poetry. In the age of the empire's expansionism, varieties of poems were rendered in overseas colonies and territories. The traditional season words and themes, however, were found very difficult to be applied to different natural conditions in those foreign countries. As a result, not only in modern and proletarian poems but even in traditional ones there arose questions about the four seasons, the season themes, and other poetical conventions. Thus haiku was both politically and formally involved in war and colonization. Here I will read Seikatsu-haiku-ron and Haiku-geijutsu-ron, the two books on haiku poetics written in the '40s by Issekiro Kuribsyashi, and consider the haiku of the imperialistic age.
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Motoaki Ichikawa
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Hiroshi Sunagawa
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Masaru Sakamoto
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Takehiko Iwashita
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Susumu Fukunaga
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Tsukasa Tamashiro
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Atsushi Yuasa
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Yuko Kubota
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