The is a classification in modern Japanese literature

Japanese literature

Early works of Japanese literature were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. Indian literature also had an influence through the diffusion of Buddhism in Japan...

 used for writers who appeared on the postwar literary scene between 1948 and 1949.

Exceptional in this generation of postwar writers is Mishima Yukio and Abe Kōbō, both of whom have received acclaim in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 and abroad. At times, their reputation abroad has surpassed that of their reputation in Japan.

List of Second Generation writers

• Mishima Yukio (三島由紀夫)
• Abe Kōbō (安部公房)
• Shimao Toshio
  Shimao Toshio
  was a Japanese novelist.-Biography:Shimao was born in Yokohama, graduated from Kyushu University, and in 1944 was sent to Japan's southern Amami Islands as an officer for a naval suicide attack squadron in World War II. The war ended while he was still waiting for his orders...
  
   (島尾敏雄)
• Hotta Yoshie (堀田善衛)
• Inoue Mitsuharu (井上光晴)

See also

• Japanese literature
  Japanese literature
  Early works of Japanese literature were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. Indian literature also had an influence through the diffusion of Buddhism in Japan...
  
  
• The First Generation of Postwar Writers
  The First Generation of Postwar Writers
  The First Generation of Postwar Writers is a classification in Modern Japanese literature used to group writers who appeared on the postwar literary scene between 1946 and 1947.-List of First Generation writers:* Ōoka Shōhei * Noma Hiroshi...
  
  
• The Third Generation of Postwar Writers
  The Third Generation of Postwar Writers
  The Third Generation of Postwar Writers is a classification in Modern Japanese literature used to group writers who appeared on the postwar literary scene between 1953 and 1955....