毛泽东这个名字,作为中国共产党的领袖和中国人民革命的杰出代表,大约在本世纪30年代末出现在日本,它是随着埃德加·斯诺的《西行漫记》一书的发表而在日本出现的。1937年《西行漫记》在英国伦敦一出版,很快就秘密传入日本,当年11月,日本的《中央评论》就把它作了部分介绍,一些关心中国革命的日本人为河上肇等看到斯诺书中所描 As a leader of the Chinese Communist Party and an outstanding representative of the Chinese people’s revolution, Mao Zedong’s name appeared in Japan around the late 1930s. It was published with Edgar Snow’s book, The Waxing of the West Japan appeared. In 1937, the “Western Commemoration of the West” was published in London in the United Kingdom and soon was secretly introduced to Japan. In November of that year, Japan’s “Central Commentary” made some introductory remarks. Some Japanese who care about the Chinese revolution look at Hajime Kawai et al. Described in Snow’s book