Abstract
In the 1990s neo-conservative critics of postwar intellectual discourse alleged that the progressive publishing house Iwanami Shoten and its monthly opinion journal Sekai were responsible for perpetrating leftist ideology. In this paper I examine the origins of this characterization, argue that it misrepresents the role of Iwanami Shoten and the scope of so-called ‘leftist publishing’ in the early postwar years, and present a more nuanced picture of the early postwar publishing industry.
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