Boys' Battle Flag

Japanese: 少年戦旗 - しょうねんせんき

A reading magazine for boys and girls. It was launched in the late 1920s as part of the Pioneer movement, a movement that saw the rise of Japan's youth worker-farmer associations, in order to indoctrinate and organize children in proletarian consciousness. The direct impetus was a proposal by Ino Shozo at the founding general meeting of the Japan Proletarian Writers League in February 1929, and the first issue was published in May of the same year as an appendix to Senki, the joint journal of the All-Japan Proletarian Art League and the Writers League. In addition to proletarian fairy tales and children's songs, the magazine also contained science books, current events, and letters to editors from children.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

少年少女むきの読物雑誌。1920年代後半からの日本の労農少年団(ピオネール)運動のなかで，子どもを〈プロレタリア意識〉で教化し，組織していくために発刊された。29年2月日本プロレタリア作家同盟創立総会での猪野省三の提案が直接の契機となり，同年5月，全日本無産者芸術連盟と作家同盟の共同機関誌《戦旗》の付録のかたちで創刊号が出された。内容は，プロレタリア童話･童謡のほか，科学読物，時事物，子どもの投書などもみられる。

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