Kaizōsha

Kaizōsha (改造社) was a major Japanese publishing company in the first half of the 20th century. Its achievements included publishing Kaizō, a popular general interest magazine which carried both works of fiction and articles pertaining to social issues and socialist thought. The company also was a major publishing outlet for literature.

==History== thumb|Yamamoto Sanehiko Kaizōsha was founded in 1919 by the Japanese journalist Yamamoto Sanehiko (1885-1952), who became its president. He began by launching the general interest magazine, Kaizō (改造; English, "Reconstruction"), which during the 1920s would become a forum for Marxist and socialist debate. Contributors included Sakai Toshihiko, Yamakawa Hitoshi, Osugi Sakae, Kawakami Hajime and Kagawa Toyohiko. The magazine also published articles by foreign intellectuals such as Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein, with the result that it became a voice in Japan of "new trends in thought and science".