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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.

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1. Written in Ash: The Education of a Reconstructionist 2. The Comprehensive Magazine Kaiz?: Giving Voice to the Opposition and Challenging the Status Quo in Interwar Japan 3. Shouldering Giants: The Presentation of Western Intellectual and Cultural Elite to Interwar Japan 4. Power to the People: Kaiz?sha´s Enpon Gamble and the Making of a Publishing Revolution 5. Literary Interventions: Yamamoto Sanehiko´s Role in Sino-Japanese Literary Exchange 6. Embracing the Danse Macabre: The Politics and Political Career of Yamamoto Sanehiko 7. Last Man Standing: Courting Revival in Postwar Japan Epilogue. Yamamoto Sanehiko´s Interwar Legacy in Postwar Japan Appendix: Glossary of Selected Terms from East Asian Languages

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"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

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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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