A Language for Asia? Transnational Encounters in the Japanese Esperanto Movement, 1906–28

Abstract

In the summer of 1887, Ludovic Zamenhof, a Jewish ophthalmologist writing under the pseudonym “Dr Esperanto,” published a pamphlet in Warsaw, detailing “Lingvo Internacia,” a proposed language for international communication. This language came to be known by the name under which he wrote, growing as a movement and community that peaked in the interwar years, and continues today. Forty years after its original description, Akita Ujaku, a Japanese playwright visiting Moscow to attend the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, found Esperanto to be the solution to a set of problems he was having and promoted its use in official meetings as well as for more personal encounters in Moscow and beyond.

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