The Cultural Evolution of Postwar Japan

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Christopher T. Keaveney

   Pages 1-15

3. Written in Ash: The Education of a Reconstructionist

   • Christopher T. Keaveney

   Pages 17-32

4. The Comprehensive Magazine Kaizō: Giving Voice to the Opposition and Challenging the Status Quo in Interwar Japan

   • Christopher T. Keaveney

   Pages 33-63

5. Shouldering Giants: The Presentation of Western Intellectual and Cultural Elite to Interwar Japan

   • Christopher T. Keaveney

   Pages 65-86

6. Power to the People: Kaizōsha’s Enpon Gamble and the Making of a Publishing Revolution

   • Christopher T. Keaveney

   Pages 87-109

7. Literary Interventions: Yamamoto Sanehiko’s Role in Sino-Japanese Literary Exchange

   • Christopher T. Keaveney

   Pages 111-131

8. Embracing the Danse Macabre: The Politics and Political Career of Yamamoto Sanehiko

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   Pages 133-158

9. Last Man Standing: Courting Revival in Postwar Japan

   • Christopher T. Keaveney

   Pages 159-182

10. Epilogue: Yamamoto Sanehiko’s Interwar Legacy in Postwar Japan

    • Christopher T. Keaveney

    Pages 183-196

11. Back Matter

    Pages 197-254

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Yamamoto Sanehiko's (1885-1952) achievements as a publisher, writer, and politician in the interwar period served as both a catalyst and a template for developments after the wars. While exploring the accomplishments the compelling figure, this study sheds new light on the social, cultural, and political changes that occurred in postwar Japan.

• construction
• cultural evolution
• education
• Japan
• Japanese
• politics
• publishing
• reconstruction
• revolution

"A compelling, comprehensive, expertly researched, and long overdue study of Yamamoto Sanehiko (1885-1952), president of a major Japanese publishing house in interwar and early postwar Japan, and a key figure in Japanese intellectual and literary history. Keaveney's nuanced book skillfully illuminates Yamamoto's many achievements, the paradoxes that came to define his career, and most importantly his vital role as a cultural broker among Japan, China, and the West." - Karen L. Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, USA and author of Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature and Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures

"Focusing on the accomplishments of Yamamoto Sanehiko (1885-1952), a leading journalist and cultural entrepreneur, Keaveney has produced an exemplary study that touches upon a range of modern Japanese literary currents and trends. As founder and editor of the influential journal Kaiz?, Yamamoto inspired important innovations in literary publishing and stimulated a productive Sino-Japanese literary and intellectual exchange. An illuminating and entirely engaging book." - Marvin Marcus, Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Washington University in St Louis, USA, and author of Reflections in a Glass Door: Memory and Melancholy in the Personal Writings of Natsume Soseki

Christopher T. Keaveney is a Professor of Japanese and Asian Studies and co-chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Linfield College, USA.

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