The masses of city and farm village people's life cultures at the beginning of the Showa era : The Popular formation and socio-culture from 1920 to 1930
KOYAMA, Masahiro

This paper consider the formation of popular culture at the incunabula of a Japanese mass society by analyzing data of the actual life of the masses of people in cities and farm villages from the late Taisho era to the early Showa era. Development and the social fluctuation of popular culture during these periods have greatly influenced the Japanese society after World War II. During these periods, rapid development resulted in industrialization of the society served to increase the population in urban areas, which exceeded that in farm villages; The bureaucracy maintained the capitalist system and mass production, sales and mass consumption brought about the conformity of life style; furthermore, information industry and traffic industry developed. "Public opinion "which favored the war was easily formed by the social unrest by the Great Depression, the protracted economic recession, the improvement of living standard along with increasing leisure time, the change of social value which appreciated higher education and an easy access to media at the immature stage of Japanese democracy.