Reflecting the expansionism of the Japanese Empire, literary works of the 20s and the 30s were often set in the neighboring regions.
2) Reflecting the expansionism of the Japanese Empire, literary works of the 20s and the 30s were often set in the neighboring regions. Yokomitsu Riichi’s Shaighai, is set in the busy international city of Shanghai, Yuasa Katsuei’s “Kannani” in Colonial Korea, and Kobayashi Takiji’s Crab Cannery Ship in the Sea of Okhotsk where the tension […]
