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[Jack]

World Children’s Literature month focus on Japan

See article:
https://glli-us.org/2026/09/07/worldk...

[Jack]

I think, similarly to western literature, the Japanese concept of literature for children is primarily modern, that is from the Meiji Restoration to the contemporary period.
Also what was formerly marketed as children’s literature may be more complicated than a pure children’s story.

For a interesting dive into the genre see the sequence at the Japanese Children’s Literature site (in English and Japanese):

https://www.kodomo.go.jp/jcl/e/index....

Please add any thoughts, comments, or favorite books or stories to the threads in this folder. -J