Culture globalization is the main tendency of our society which directly influence and restricts the development of all the countries in the world and the whole process of human civilization. Since twentieth century, popular culture has been regarded as a new question for study, which has been paid attention more and more, showing strong modern favor. Under the influence of common culture, a strange phenomenon appeared in literature field: common culture has become the core of Japanese literature field and hold an important position instead of pure literature, which makes Japanese literature develop to a new stage. This phenomenon has attracted Japanese literature researchers. The purpose of the paper is to discover the law and characteristics and the developmental tenderly in the future .By the way of describing the origin process of development of popular culture in order to make readers understand Japanese popular culture completely. The main structure of the paper consists of four chapters. The first chapter is "The pre-history of Japanese popular literature" . This chapter points out that popular literature is a dissemination literature on base of plenty of works, spread and expenditure. Through the discussion of Japanese popular appearing literature reasons and developmental process in early time.The second chapter is "The conditions of Japanese popular literature prosperity". The chapter analyzes the conditions of Japanese popular literature prosperity from three aspects.The third chapter is "The prosperity of Japanese popular literature". After the second world war, the broadness of themes fall content and artistic have been improved .The development of popular medium leads to the unclearness between pure literature and popular literature Reasoning literature, middle literature and fantasy literature as the main subject matter shows basic characters of Japanese modern society.The fourth chapter is "The future directions of popular literature ", Because of the colorfulness of peoples concept, popular literature must produce more and more works colorful content, different styles artistic and entertainment in order to cater for more readers, at the same time it also should develop with movies and TV, and so on. |