Modern written Japanese; contemporary prose and written style. In education, it often refers to the school subject contrasting modern texts with classical literature.
高校の現代文の授業で、現代小説の読解を練習した。
In high school modern-Japanese class, we practiced reading comprehension of contemporary novels.
試験の現代文の問題は、文章の要旨を正確につかむ力が問われる。
Modern-Japanese questions on exams test the ability to grasp the main point of a passage accurately.
この評論は現代文として読みやすく、語彙も平易だ。
This essay is easy to read as modern prose and uses accessible vocabulary.