Life record exercise - Seikatsukirokuundo

Japanese: 生活記録運動 - せいかつきろくうんどう

A group activity among young people in rural areas and factories, and housewives, in which they write about their lives as they are, read their writings with their friends, and discuss new ways of living. It became popular in the 1950s and spread throughout the country. Its origins lie in the spelling education that elementary school teachers used from the Taisho period to the beginning of the Showa period to encourage students to look at the realities of their lives and express them. The tradition of the Life Spelling Movement, which was carried out around 1935 by young teachers in the Tohoku region in particular in resistance to the trends of state control and militarism, was carried on in the post-World War II movement with works such as "Yamabiko School" (Mujaku Seikyo) and "New Spelling Classroom" (Kokubu Ichitaro), and also had a major impact on the Life Record Movement.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

農村や工場の青年，家庭の主婦の間で，生活をありのままに書き，仲間で読み合い，新しい生き方を話し合うサークル活動。1950年代に盛んになり，全国各地に広がった。その源流は，大正から昭和の初めにかけて小学校の教師たちが児童に生活の現実を見つめさせ表現させた綴方教育にある。とくに1935年前後に東北地方の青年教師たちを中心として，国家統制や軍国主義の風潮に抵抗して行った生活綴方運動の伝統は，《山びこ学校》(無着成恭)，《新しい綴方教室》(国分一太郎)のように第2次大戦後の運動に継承され，生活記録運動にも大きな影響を与えた。

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