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In recent years,the pure love-stories have become something of a boom in Japan.For example,two novels titled
Sekai no chusin de, ai wo sakebu (We Wish to Cry out for Our Love, in the Center of the World) by Kyouichi
Katayama and Ima, Aini Yukimasu (Soon, I’ll Go to Meet You)by Takuji Ichikawa, have gained a large number
of readers and these works are dramatized in cinema and television.Moreover,in South Korea and Japan,Fuyu no
Sonata (A Love-Song in Winter)had made a top hit just before Japanese boom of the pure love-story happened.
What meanings,we should think,does this unusual social phenomenon have?One of the answers of this question
is probably the beauty that will lie hidden within these pure and fantastic love-stories.This beauty itself stirred up
some desire for our true life and reminded us of nostalgia for the good old days. In short, those are the important
elements of our life which are being lost one by one in today’s Japanese society.
In this paper, I tried to analyze the truth about pure love-stories of the boom,mainly on the bassis of the most
fundamental novel in modern Japanese pure love-stories, The Grave in the Chrysanthemum by Sachio Itoh. |
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