"Justice and Smile" is a youth novel written by Dazai Osamu, a representative figure in Japanese "rogue school" literature. This book includes two works: the diary novel "Justice and Smile" and the epistolary novel "Pandora's Box". The style of the novel is bright, peaceful and interesting. The title work "Justice and Smile" tells the story of the protagonist Serikawa pursuing his life dream of becoming an actor with the creed of "Justice and Smile". "Pandora's Box" tells the interesting life of Risuke Koshiba, a rich man suffering from tuberculosis, in a sanatorium. "Justice and a Smile" is Osamu Dazai's youth novel, following the life and changes in the girl's mood in "The Girl's Disciple", which is the first youth novel to describe a young man's doubts, distress, and ultimate struggle to achieve his dreams in the form of a diary. Faced with the huge gap between ideal and real life, the protagonist Shoin, based on Osamu Dazai himself, wrote down in his diary his confusion about himself, his contempt for the world, his resistance to darkness and his good hope for the future.
