Mita Bungaku is a Japanese literary journal founded in 1910 at Keio University

Keio University

,abbreviated as Keio or Keidai , is a Japanese university located in Minato, Tokyo. It is known as the oldest institute of higher education in Japan. Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi originally established it as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo . It has eleven campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa...

 which published early works by young Japanese authors such as Yōjirō Ishizaka

Yojiro Ishizaka

was an influential and popular novelist of post-World War II Japan.-Education and early career:Born at Daikancho 82, Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Ishizaka went to Hirosaki Middle School in 1913 and then to Keio University in 1920. On graduating, he took a position at Hirosaki Women's High School....

, Kyōka Izumi

Kyoka Izumi

is the pen name of a Japanese author of novels, short stories, and kabuki plays who was active from the late Meiji to the early Shōwa periods. He is best known for a characteristic brand of Romanticism preferring tales of the supernatural heavily influenced by works of the earlier Edo period in...

, Hakushū Kitahara, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki,, Takitarō Minakami, Kojima Masajirō

Kojima Masajiro

was a Japanese novelist active during the Shōwa period of Japan.-Biography:Kojima was born in the plebian Shitaya district of Tokyo to a family of clothing merchants. While attending Keio University he studied Edo period Japanese literature and the works of European authors. He was especially...

, and Ayako Sono

Ayako Sono

is a Catholic Japanese writer.She went to the Catholic Sacred Heart School in Tokyo after elementary school. During World War II, she evacuated to Kanazawa...

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Founding

Mita Bungaku was founded at Keio University

Keio University

,abbreviated as Keio or Keidai , is a Japanese university located in Minato, Tokyo. It is known as the oldest institute of higher education in Japan. Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi originally established it as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo . It has eleven campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa...

 by student and author Mantarō Kubota and others, with help from Professor Kafū Nagai in 1910.