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Science Fiction in Japan is an important subgenre of modern Japanese Literature that has strongly influenced aspects of contemporary Japanese pop culture including Anime , Manga , Video Games and Tokusatsu . HISTORY After World War II The era of modern Japanese Science Fiction began with the influence of Paperback s that the US occupational army brought to Japan after World War II . The first Science Fiction Magazine in Japan, ''Seiun'' (星雲), was created in 1954 but was discontinued after only one issue. Several short-lived magazines followed ''Seiun'' onto the Japanese market, but none experienced great success. Science fiction in Japan gained popularity in the early 1960s . Both the ''SF Magazine'' (SFマガジン) and the now defunct Science Fiction coterie magazine ''Uchujin'' (宇宙塵) began publication then. The first Nihon SF Taikai (日本SF大会) convention was in 1962. Notable authors like Sakyo Komatsu , Yasutaka Tsutsui , Ryo Hanmura , Ryu Mitsuse , Kazumasa Hirai and Aritsune Toyota debuted at the ''Hayakawa'' SF contest. Other authors, such as Taku Mayumura , Shinichi Hoshi and Aran Kyodomari were also published. Though influenced by the West , their work was distinctively Japanese. For example, Kazumasa Hirai, Aritsune Toyota and Takumi Shibano wrote novels as well as plots for SF-anime and SF-manga , which are some of the most prominent examples of Japanese contributions in the genre of science fiction. The contributions of excellent Translators such as Tetsu Yano , Masahiro Noda , Hisashi Asakura and Norio Ito introduced English science fiction to readers in Japan, and greatly influenced public opinion of science fiction. ''SF Magazine'''s first editor, Masami Fukushima was also an excellent novelist and translator. Infiltration and Diffusion Public interest in Japan for science fiction had risen notably by Expo '70 . Komatsu's ''Nihon Chinbotsu'' (aka Japan Sinks , 1973 ) was a best-seller. ''Uchu Senkan Yamato'' (aka Space Battleship Yamato ), a work of anime placed in a science fiction setting, was aired, and '' Star Wars '' was screened in Japan in the late 1970s . The change in the nature of the science fiction genre in Japan that resulted from these events is often called "Infiltration and Diffusion" (浸透と拡散 ''Shinto to Kakusan''). At this time, Hanmura's , Junya Yokota , Koji Tanaka , Masaki Yamada , Musashi Kanbe , Azusa Noa , Chohei Kanbayashi , Mariko Ohara , Ko Hiura , Hitoshi Kusakami , Motoko Arai , Baku Yumemakura, Yoshiki Tanaka and Hiroe Suga . In the , Robot Anime series, starting from '' Mobile Suit Gundam '' were aired, and the science fiction artists group Studio Nue joined the staff of '' The Super Dimension Fortress Macross ''. Animators Hideaki Anno , Yoshiyuki Sadamoto , Takami Akai , and Shinji Higuchi , who had attracted attention by creating anime that had been exhibited at Daicon III and Daicon IV , established the studio Gainax . Wintery age Magazines for literary science fiction started to disappear in the late 1980s when public attention increasingly switched to the audio-visual media. The Hayakawa science fiction contest was also discontinued, removing a major outlet for the work of many writers. A number of science fiction and Space Opera writers, including Hosuke Nojiri , Hiroshi Yamamoto , Ryuji Kasamine , and Yuichi Sasamoto , began writing " Light Novel " genre paperback science fiction and fantasy novels, which are primarily targeted to teenagers. This period, during which literary science fiction declined, has been labeled the "Wintery age" (冬の時代 ''Fuyu no Jidai''). In the mainstream of science fiction, Yoshiki Tanaka published ''Ginga Eiyu Densetsu'' (a.k.a. Legend Of The Galactic Heroes ) series. The boundary between science fiction novels and light novels was blurred in the 1990s . Although Morioka Hiroyuki 's '' Seikai No Monshou '' series is considered to be in the vein of the light novel, the series was published by Hayakawa Shobo as part of the mainstream science fiction world. On the other hand, light novel writers like Sasamoto and Nojiri have also published Hard SF novels. LITERATURE Artists Awards Publishers FANDOM Personalities Conventions EXTERNAL LINKS REFERENCES
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