The Study of the Magazine HokuSou Focused on Syouhen Kennou's Novel

At the end of the Second World War, the magazine HokuSou had become involved in the war as well. Although the magazine assumed a supportive attitude toward the war at that time, it reflected a diversity of views to some extent. Not long after the Greater East Asia War broke out, the Syouhen Kennou novel was born. As with HokuSou, the Syouhen Kennou novels also presented several different positions by not only supporting the war, but also clearly showing the opposition clearly. On this subject, this thesis investigates the Syouhen Kennou novel published in HokuSou and analyses the complex character of Manchukuo’s literature