New Society - Shinshakai

Japanese: 新社会 - しんしゃかい

A socialist enlightenment magazine founded by Sakai Toshihiko in September 1915 by Ubunsha. Monthly. Sakai went a step further than "Luffa Flower" (founded in January 1914) and proclaimed a "small flag raising" of the socialist movement. It was an expression of a stance to move forward even a little from the "winter age", saying, "It is not a flag that can be called a battle cry and valiantly raised, but it is no doubt a small paper flag hoisted on the tip of a bald fountain pen." In August 1917, it went from being privately managed by Sakai to being jointly managed by Arahata Kanson, Yoshikawa Morikuni, Takabatake Motoyuki, Yamazaki Kesaya, Yamakawa Kinu, and Watanabe Masataro, and from around the middle of 1918, the influence of the national socialist faction, including Takabatake and Kitahara Tatsuo, became stronger.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1915年9月，売文社から堺利彦によって創刊された社会主義啓蒙雑誌。月刊。堺は《へちまの花》(1914年1月創刊)を一歩進めて，社会主義運動の〈小さき旗上げ〉を宣言した。それは〈鬨（とき）を作つて勇ましく奮ひたつと云ふ程の旗上では勿論ないが，兎にかく是でも禿（ち）びた万年筆の先に掲げた，小さな紙旗の旗上には相違ありません〉と，〈冬の時代〉から一歩でも前進しようとする姿勢の表れであった。17年8月堺の個人経営から荒畑寒村，吉川守圀，高畠素之，山崎今朝弥，山川均，渡辺政太郎と堺の共同経営となり，18年半ばごろから高畠，北原竜雄らの国家社会主義派の影響が強くなった。

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