Isaiah Bendasan - Izaya Bendasan

...Especially in the field of art criticism, anonymous critics tend to compete for seriousness. For example, in Japan after World War II, Fusao Hayashi, who had been expelled by the occupying forces, was in charge of the culture section of the Yomiuri Shimbun (1947-51) and famously slashed through the literary world under the pen name of Akira Shirai (a phonetic spelling of "white eye"). There is also a strong theory that Jan Denman, who wrote the social commentary "Tokyo Information" (1960-97) in the weekly Shincho, and Isaiah Ben-Dassan, author of the best-selling book "The Japanese and the Jews" (1970), are also considered anonymous. [Yutaka Arase]...

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…とくに芸術批評の領域で匿名批評はしんらつさを競いがちで，たとえば第2次大戦後日本では占領軍に追放処分を受けていた林房雄が《読売新聞》の文化面〈東西南北〉欄を担当(1947‐51)し，白井明(〈白い眼〉の当て字)の筆名で文壇をなで切りしたことが有名である。このほか，《週刊新潮》の社会時評〈東京情報〉(1960‐97)の執筆者ヤン･デンマン，ベストセラーとなった《日本人とユダヤ人》(1970)の著者イザヤ･ベンダサンについても匿名とみなす説が強い。【荒瀬 豊】。…

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