The Birch School advocates that goodness is more beautiful than pure beauty. They hold high the banner of bourgeois humanitarianism and demand the full development of individuality and the free expression of self. The writers of the Birch School have an optimistic, clear and naive attitude towards life. They call for light and hope and are full of yearning for the future. There is no doubt that the birch school was influenced by the popular western democratic trend of thought at that time. They are interested in Bergson and Nietzsche's ideas, praise Tolstoy, Goethe and Whitman's works, and try their best to introduce Beethoven, Cezanne and Rodin. However, the works of birch writers all contain the charm of traditional culture. Saneatsu Mushakoji worships Tolstoy, takes humanitarianism as a weapon, affirms people's natural feelings, and tries to build his utopian paradise-"New Village". His novels, such as Naive Man, Happy Man and Friendship, all run through a clear, positive and full of vitality idealism, full of natural and loving vitality. The understanding revealed in his works is due to the influence of Zen and Yangming from his uncle. The European style in Shimadairo's works is obvious, and anarchism and socialist thoughts also influence his creation from time to time. Anna karenin is reflected in "Leaves at the Beginning of the Month" in "Women". At the same time, the Confucian education he received in his early years standardized his ideological tendency, so that he did not step into the ranks of socialists until the end and committed suicide in contradiction and pain. Shiga Naoya is quite distinctive among birch writers. His works have profound moral concepts and ethical consciousness, especially his profound and elegant mood and subtle connotation, all of which are oriental. He reconciled the humanitarian spirit of the western bourgeoisie with Zen in the East. Zouwang gave infinite sympathy to the heroine's life misfortune from the humanitarian point of view. Reconciliation is about overcoming anxiety and crisis in life and moving towards harmony. Night Walk allows the protagonist to find purity and harmony in nature, thus understanding all the hardships in life. From the birch writers, we realized the charm of Japanese literature after the integration of eastern and western literature.

The combination of the East and the West of the Aesthetic School and the Birch School shows the style of Japanese literature, which is even more obvious in the new trend of thought school. As the last school of Japanese modern literature, the new trend of thought school really integrates the strengths of various schools of modern literature. They are neither satisfied with romantic enthusiasm nor agree with the purely objective description of naturalism; It is neither inclined to the transcendental beauty of aestheticism nor attached to the humanitarian goodness of the birch school. The new trend of thought advocates facing reality directly and not avoiding ugliness, but it should have a new angle, make a new explanation to society rationally and pursue perfection and exquisiteness in writing skills. Therefore, it is eclectic to all schools, and it is not easy to refuse or blindly follow. Akutagawa Ryunosuke's creation embodies this spirit. Influenced by China's classical culture and traditional Edo culture since childhood, Akutagawa came into contact with the works of various schools in Europe19th century and early 20th century in middle school and university. On the basis of digestion and absorption, Akutagawa integrated Chinese and Japanese classical culture, eastern and western cultural traditions, realism and modernism, and formed his own style. Akutagawa's historical novels not only reveal the disaster-stricken society and its law of the jungle (Rashomon), but also analyze people's fragile selves and people's selfish psychology of watching the fun (nose). The contradiction between art and feudal power not only denies the supremacy of art (hell map), but also reveals the loss of confidence in people and the confusion of objective things (deep in the bamboo forest). Akutagawa's realistic novels not only reveal the brutality of militarism (general), but also sympathize with the little people (Afu's chastity), and even praise the beautiful sentiments of workers (orange). They also wrote about the psychology of young men and women in love and marriage (autumn) and the complex contradictions of ordinary families (A Jin and children). Akutagawa Ryunosuke's works are often bizarre in conception and unique in means, including the common storylines, characters and conflicts in traditional novels, monologues, staggered time sequences and absurd symbols in modern novels. It can be seen that Ryunosuke Akutagawa absorbed the advantages of traditional novels and modernist novels, and made them penetrate and merge with each other. Facing the diverse traditional culture and the same diverse foreign culture, he made a rational choice and combination in line with his own style.

In the whole Japanese literature, probably no literature of that era is more westernized than modern literature, and no literature of that era is more oriental than modern literature. This disharmony appears in a coordinated way. Modern Japanese literature developed in the collision between Japanese culture and western culture, and went through a painful and tortuous road. In this process, Japanese literature is westernized and western literature is japanized. However, due to the shackles of autocratic politics, modern Japanese writers can't be reckless and actively join the WTO, which greatly limits their horizons. They often open themselves up actively at the beginning, accept the world and are full of lofty sentiments, but in the end they often fall into self-pity and lack profound historical vision. However, in any case, Japanese modern literature has made some achievements in adhering to the national tradition and catching up with the world trend, and also left us with profound enlightenment.