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The Two-Sen Copper Coin
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2025
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A key voice in Japan's proletarian literature movement of the 1920s and 30s, Kuroshima Denji (1898-1943) is best known for his antiwar writings. These include a number of short stories depicting Japan's participation in the 1918-1922 Siberian Intervention, as well as Militarized Streets (Busō seru shigai, 1930), a novel set during Japan's 1928 military intervention in China. Militarized Streets earned the dubious distinction of being censored by both the wartime Japanese state and the postwar U.S. Occupation.
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1 A translation of Militarized Streets and a number of Kuroshima's short stories are available in Kuroshima Denji, A Flock of Swirling Crows and Other Proletarian Writings, trans. Zeljko Cipris (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005); an excerpt from that translation is available online. See also Heather Bowen-Struyk, “Rival Imagined Communities: Class and Nation in Japanese Proletarian Literature,” positions: east asia cultures critique 14.2 (2006) 373-404; and Kuroshima Denji, “Siberia Under Snow,” trans. Lawrence Rogers, Critical Asian Studies 38:2 (2006), 309-319.
2 See Jonathan Abel, Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), 117-120.
3 For biographical details, see Zeljko Cipris's “Introduction” in Kuroshima, A Flock of Swirling Crows and Other Proletarian Writings, 1-13.