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Tomoji Abe

Tomoji Abe was a Japanese novelist, social critic, humanist, and translator of English and American literature. Although he began writing as a modernist, in his later works he represented the intellectual movement in Japanese literature.[1] This movement departed from Japanese traditional thinking and from established forms of narration, which focused on aesthetic values and emotional states of mind (such as appear in the works of Junichiro Tanizaki and Ryunosuke Akutagawa); it also departed from modernist views, which continued to be popular in world literature and in Japan (Japanese modernist writers included Haruo Satō, Sei Ito, Tatsuo Hori, Riichi Yokomitsu and Yasunari Kawabata). Abe's intellectual approach was incompatible with the socio-political atmosphere of Japan in the early Shōwa period (1926–1945), with rising fascism and militarism, and the crusade to preserve Japanese feudal traditions.

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Tomoji Abe

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朝日新聞社 · 『 アサヒグラフ 』 1949年3月30日号 · Public domain

Died
1973 · Tokyo.
Nationality
Japan · Empire of Japan
Occupation
novelist · translator · writer · literary critic · scholar of english
Education
University of Tokyo · Nagoya University
Languages
Japanese

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Tomoji Abe was a Japanese novelist, social critic, humanist, and translator of English and American literature. Although he began writing as a modernist, in his later works he represented the intellectual movement in Japanese literature.[1] This movement departed from Japanese traditional thinking and from established forms of narration, which focused on aesthetic values and emotional states of mind (such as appear in the works of Junichiro Tanizaki and Ryunosuke Akutagawa); it also departed from modernist views, which continued to be popular in world literature and in Japan (Japanese modernist writers included Haruo Satō, Sei Ito, Tatsuo Hori, Riichi Yokomitsu and Yasunari Kawabata). Abe's intellectual approach was incompatible with the socio-political atmosphere of Japan in the early Shōwa period (1926–1945), with rising fascism and militarism, and the crusade to preserve Japanese feudal traditions.

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Tomoji Abe (1903–1973) was a Japanese and Japanese literary critic, novelist and scholar of english, among other activities. Born in Mimasaka, the literary critic died in Tokyo.

Tomoji Abe studied at Nagoya University and University of Tokyo. The literary critic worked for Meiji University. Languages used include Japanese.

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