World Culture

An anti-war and anti-fascist art, thought, and cultural information magazine. It was launched in February 1935 (Showa 10) in Kyoto by Nakai Masakazu, Shinmura Takeshi, Mashita Shinichi, Wada Yoichi, Kuno Osamu, Tomioka Masugoro, and others as a successor to Bi-hihyo (Bi-hihyo), and published 34 issues by October 1937. It had a circulation of 500-800. It was notable for its systematic introduction of overseas anti-fascist movements, and for the members themselves trying to promote the movement as intellectuals. However, the editorial policy was deemed to be a "people's front cultural movement" in line with the new policy of the 7th Congress of Comintern, and the members were arrested on November 8, 1937 for violating the Peace Preservation Law, and Nakai, Shinmura, and six others were indicted. After being detained in detention centers and pretrial detention centers for around two years, they were found guilty between 1939 and 1940, but all of them were released because their sentences were suspended.

[Shoji Arakawa]

"My Showa History" by Yoichi Wada (1976, Shogakukan) " ▽ ""Beauty, Criticism", "World Culture" and "Saturday" by Hajime Hirabayashi (included in "Studies on Wartime Resistance I" edited by the Institute of Humanities, Doshisha University, 1968, Misuzu Shobo)" ▽ "Reprint of "World Culture" (1975, Shogakukan)"

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反戦・反ファシズムの芸術、思想、文化情報雑誌。1935年（昭和10）2月、京都の中井正一(なかいまさかず)、新村猛(しんむらたけし)、真下信一(ましたしんいち)、和田洋一、久野収(くのおさむ)、富岡益五郎(とみおかますごろう)らによって『美・批評』の後継誌として創刊され、37年10月まで通巻34号を発行した。部数500～800。海外の反ファシズム運動を系統的に紹介するとともに、同人自らも知識人として運動を推し進めようとした点に特色があった。しかし、この編集方針がコミンテルン第7回大会の新方針に沿う「人民戦線的文化運動」であるとして、37年11月8日以降同人が治安維持法違反で検挙され、中井、新村ら6名が起訴された。留置所・未決拘置所での2年間前後の拘禁ののち、39年から40年にかけて有罪判決を受けるが、執行猶予つきであったので全員出獄した。

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『和田洋一著『私の昭和史』（1976・小学館）』▽『平林一著「『美・批評』『世界文化』と『土曜日』」（同志社大学人文科学研究所編『戦時下抵抗の研究I』所収・1968・みすず書房）』▽『『復刻版　世界文化』（1975・小学館）』

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