The literature of shibata renzaburo and a new perspective on nihilism in postwar japan, 1945 – 1978

... biographical monographs on Shibata Renzaburō available, and will be consulted and analyzed in detail The monographs will be of particular importance for understanding the overall context of Shibata. .. life and work coincided with some of the most dramatic and pivotal transformations of Japan in the twentieth century – the rapid waning and collapse of the Taishō democracy, the militarization of. .. village, which during the Taisho Era (1912 1926) was a small hamlet in the bay of the Seto Inland Sea Okayama Prefecture was the scene of many battles at the close of the Heian Era, and local