日本人最早以开放的心态积极吸收中国文化,产生了日本知识分子多为汉学家的现象。近代以降,日本人急于摆脱相对落后的亚洲,赶超欧美,因此,明治以后的日本文学起步于对西方文学的摄取,与欧美文学具有密切的关系。尽管如此,日本近代文学并不能完全脱离汉学的底子,加上与日本已产生并发展的民族主义激烈的碰撞,形成了日本近代文学的特点。 As early as the Japanese were open to actively absorb the Chinese culture, resulting in the Japanese intellectuals mostly sinologists phenomenon. In modern times, the Japanese were eager to get rid of the relatively backward Asia and catch up with and surpass Europe and the United States. Therefore, the Japanese literature after the Meiji began its ingestion of Western literature and had close relations with European and American literature. Nevertheless, modern Japanese literature can not completely break away from the foundation of Sinology, and fiercely collide with the nationalism that Japan has produced and developed, forming the characteristics of Japanese modern literature.