Abstract
Yamamoto Sanehiko is remembered primarily today as the publisher of one of the leading progressive magazines of the interwar period and as the publishing impresario whose company spawned a revolution with the release of its first enpon series. He is less commonly remembered as a politician. And yet, it was as a public servant and as a champion of the people that Yamamoto had always hoped to make his mark, and his achievements in those other areas are indivisible from his achievements as a lifetime politician. He never achieved the lofty political posts to which he aspired, but his political accomplishments mirror his achievements as a writer and publisher, and as with his attainments in other areas, Yamamoto Sanehiko’s political career in turn reflects the mercurial nature of interwar Japan.
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Keaveney, C.T. (2013). Embracing the Danse Macabre: The Politics and Political Career of Yamamoto Sanehiko. In: The Cultural Evolution of Postwar Japan. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137364111_7
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