Post-Nuclear Era Japan | I Live In Fear
Using I Live in Fear as a case study, crisis has been shown to impair our ability to judge reality as a result of our own weakness and fear. In the case of the atomic bombings, their effect on culture was heavily exacerbated due to both public policy and magnitude. However, as Japan as a society and culture has undergone a process of recovery it gives us hope that modern crises can also be recovered from.
Expression of Mental Illness in Modern Japanese Literature
The modern period of Japan is a time marked by change. With the Meiji era having such a focus on westernization, Japan began to have a national identity crisis. This change, followed by more change, war, and poverty created the world that many modern Japanese authors had experienced. It follows that their works are the result of the historical context in which they inhabited.