In August 1922 Tadayoshi Akita, an editor of the Japanese journal “Kaizo”, asks Husserl to write an essay for this journal. Interesting that Akita translates in his letter KAIZO as “Reconstruction” and not as “renewal” (Erneuerung). Husserl sends an article which he titled “Erneuerung. Ihr Problem und ihre Methode” (“Renewal. Its Problem and Its Method”). In the following year he sends more articles: “Die Methode der Wesensforschung” (“The Method of Essential Inquiry”) and “Erneuerung als individualethisches Problem” (“Renewal as an Ethical Problem for the Individual”).
Husserl’s article “Die Idee einer philosophischen Kultur. Ihr erstes Aufkeimen in der griechischen Philosophie” (The Idea of a Philosophical Culture. Its Original Germination in Greek Philosophy”) was published in 1923 in “Japanisch-deutsche Zeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Technik”.
See the Front- and backside of Husserl’s copy of the journal “Kaizo” (March, 1923). The translation of his article: “Erneuerung. Ihr Problem und ihre Methode” (p. 84-92) into Japanese can be found in the same journal on p. 68-83.
