Books on the development of Japanese as a language and also as written art form
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last updated December, 2025
Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
KĹŤjin Karatani
Language and the Modern State: The Reform of Written Japanese
Nanette Gottlieb
The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan’s Age of Modern Print Media (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
Nathan Shockey
Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
Edward Mack
Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868–1937
Mark Silver
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