Sekai (Japanese: 世界 "World") is a Japanese monthly political magazine published by Iwanami Shoten, which was founded in December 1945.[1][2] The first issue was published in 1946.[3] The magazine is published monthly.[4][5] It has a left-wing or progressive political stance.[4] The magazine's founding principles were "peace and social justice, freedom and equality, and harmony and solidarity with the peoples of East Asia."[4] The headquarters is in Tokyo.[6] Yamaguchi Akio served as an editor of the magazine for a long period.[4]
References
- ^ James Joseph Orr - The Victim As Hero: Ideologies of Peace and National ... - Page 186 0824824350 2001 "As a central member of the Peace Problems Study Group, the group of intellectuals brought together by Sekai magazine in the late 1940s to consider such issues, he participated in the formation of Japan s first indigenous peace movement."
- ^ George R. Packard III Protest in Tokyo: The Security Treaty Crisis of 1960 2015 Page 137 1400878675 - "With his frequent contributions to Sekai magazine and his outspoken views on political matters, Nakano has been typical of many leftist intellectuals in the postwar era. He played a major rôle in opposing the revised security treaty in 1960, ..."
- ^ Philip A. Seaton (12 March 2007). Japan's Contested War Memories: The 'Memory Rifts' in Historical Consciousness of World War II. Routledge. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-134-15005-2.
- ^ a b c d Joseph K. Yamagiwa (September 1955). "Literature and Politics in the Japanese Magazine, Sekai". Public Affairs. 28 (3): 254–268. JSTOR 3035405.
- ^ "The rise and fall of intellectual journalism". Japan Echo. 32 (3). June 2005. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
- ^ Europa World Year. Taylor & Francis. 2004. p. 2357. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
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