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Kimi-no-na-wa by Kazuo Kikuta was one of the bestsellers in the 1950s. In 1954, two years after its publication, the love story was filmed, and its film version also made a great hit. Keiko Kishi and Keiji Sada, the film stars who played the couple of the melodrama, went on a tour all over the country for the advertising campaign. It was just at that time that the Emperor made his imperial visits across the country to impress the public with his new identity as a national symbol. Although apparently unrelated, the two events seem to have had the same ideological function. For, through symbolical manipulations, both of them eventually helped to create a new type of nation-state in postwar Japan.
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Richi Sakakibara
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In 1951, a collection of compositions by a group of middle school students entitled "The Yamabiko (Mountain Echo) School-The Life Document by the Students of Yamamoto Village, Yamagata Prefecture" was published. Immediately, it attracted attention of the literati, and the vast number of book reviews and articles appeared soon after the publication. This secondary discourse focused not much on the compositions themselves but predominantly on the way in which this class was taught by the young teacher, Muchaku Seikyo. The book was celebrated as a record of "democratic education" finally emerged in the postwar Japan. My paper analyzes the secondary discourse on "The Yamabiko School" as well as the after word written by Muchaku. I argue that the secondary discourse became a site where many words associated with postwar democracy such as "subjectivity," "voluntariness," "Japanese race," and "science" were discussed in relation to the act of writing, and through this endeavor, the intellectuals of the 50s produced the writers of the Yamabiko school as the ideal writing subject of the democratic Japan. I also attempted to place the book in the context of the proliferating publication by non-professional writers, in particular juvenile writers.
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Naotaka Yamaguchi
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Tenro-no-naraku by Kyojin Onishi is a political fantasy in which the opposing factions within an avant-garde party were engaged in an internal conflict at a fictitious place called Kagamiyama. The story consists of the recollections of the main characters, Chikara Samejima and Kyoko Moribe. A logical and analytical way of thinking Kyoko has learned from Samejima reflects the author's belief that the ethical essence of revolution lies in the obsevance of right procedures. Although it has very few dramatic moments, the novel still in its unique way tells us the political practicability of logical language.
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Izumi Sato
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In the 1950s there was a cultural movement called the Circle Village in the coal-mining region of Kyushu. During the reconstruction period after the war, "village" or "community" was negatively regarded as pre-modern and repressive. In the late 50s, however, it came to assume a new value against the background of the rapid growth of the country's postwar economy. In such a revival of "community," the Circle Village was born and Gan Tanigawa played a central role in it. The poet found a possibility of representation of the people by the people themselves in the cultural movement. In building a new community in a free and democratic fashion, he could successfully solve the perennial dilemma between individualism and communism. Even today his idea of community seems to be valid.
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Izumi Nakaya
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In 1956 Shinichiro Fukasawa was awarded the first New Writer Prize sponsored by the Chuo-Kouron Publisher for Narayama-bushi-kou. The novel was well received for its vivid depiction of pre-modern Japan. Interestingly enough, contemporary comments about the novel have much in common with discourses Kenkichi Yamamoto and others made of Japanese folklore at the time. Indeed, there was then felt an urgent need to unite literature and people in the increasingly modernized society. In other words, both kinds of discourses articulated a desire of the age, that is, a desire for making the unified "public" through literature.
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Makiko Yamasaki
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In the background of Haruki Murakami's novel Kokkyo-no-minami, taiyo-no-nishi is always the existence of nuclear families in the suburbs. The family system developed in postwar Japan has had complicated effects on the psychology of Japanese people and brought about problems especially in a relationship between parents and child. One of those problems is the lack of verbal interactions among family members which had once worked as moral education in a larger family before the war. Thus in the novel the boy must try to escape from the closed and one-way relation to his parents in order to be a mature person. It is not in the family but outside of it, that is, through his relations to women that he can fashion his own identity.
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Takayuki Kawaguchi
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The primary aim of the anti-nuclear movement is a nuclear disarmament and permanent peace, but recently in the guise of the movement some groups have politically abused the experience of A-bombing to direct a public sentiment to anti-Americanism and the country's need of nuclear armament. In such a rightist trend, it is important for us to squarely face memories of individual victims. Sadako Kurihara's poems may give us such an opportunity, for they are based on epitaphs inscribed on the Memorial Monument in Hiroshima. We should seriously consider the messages the poet in rapport with the dead conveys to us in her poems.
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Katsumi Togo
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Norma Field
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Norio Murase
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Kunihiko Tsutsumi
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Mutsuo Kusumoto
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Osamu Kigoshi
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Reiko Seki
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Yoshitaka Hibi
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