Japanese Modern Literature

Bo Mineri

Saiichi Maruya

Saiichi Maruya

Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai

Continuously popular to the youth above the times

Ango Sakaguchi

Ango Sakaguchi

“I just love human (...) love through and through” [ from “ Decadent theory of literature” in 1946 ]

Junitiro Tanizaki

Junitiro Tanizaki

Great names described abnormal

Shohei Ooka

Overwhelming detailed war record

Shohei Ooka

Shotaro Yasuoka

"I learned that we cannot but live till we die." [from 'The world of Shotaro Yasuoka' in 1985]

Shotaro Yasuoka

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