Keitai Shosetsu

   The purpose of this project is to use Keitai to explore topics concerning declining population in Japan and the rest of East Asia. Despite significant efforts by the government, NGOs, and corporations, Japanese continue to have children at a rate far below the replacement rate.  The same is true in China and South Korea.

  The moderators of the project do not take a stand on whether Japanese should or should not have children.  They want to objectively explore all issues related to population, using short novels as the medium. 

   This means that we are investigating the deepest of philosophical issues: What is the value of a human being?  Can people arrive at a consensus as to whether there should be MORE humans?  And if so does it matter if a certain nationality produces more or fewer people?

Using literature to explore these questions tends to invoke more profound thinking.

  The project  also aims to increase the general quality of cell phone novels both inside and outside Japan, as many of them tend to be derivative, simplistic, and lacking in plot development and character complexity.

Submit your own Keitai Shosetsu in PDF format to keitaishosetsu@aibrainstormcreator.net.