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Associate Professor

Department of Japanese and Chinese Languages and Literatures
(Japanese Language and Literature)

E-mail: shimooka[at]hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Modern Japanese Literature, Literature in Japanese Language by Non-Japanese Writers

• The ¡°I¡± Novel
• Naoya Shiga
• The ¡®Shirakaba¡¯ Group
• Japanese Literature of Taiwan
• Post-Colonial Literature

The subject of study is Modern Japanese Literature of the Meiji and Taish¨­ era, centered on Naoya Shiga.
I am also conducting research on Japanese literature centered on Taiwanese writer Reishi K¨­.
Furthermore, I am working on conducting a survey of and introducing materials related to women¡¯s magazines published under the imperial rule of pre-war Japan.

• The Way of Naoya Shiga. Kasama Shoin, 2007.
• The Japanese Literature of Post-war Taiwan: A Selection of Novels by Reishi K¨­ (1 and 2). Keisuisha, 2012 and 2015.
• ¡°Personal Novels at the End of the Meiji Era¡ªThe Beginning of the ¡®Shirakaba¡¯" Research on ¡°Takeo Arishima 20,¡± pp. 27-38, 2017.
• ¡°Japanese Novels in Post-war Taiwan: A Discussion of Reishi K¨­¡¯s ¡®Kani¡¯¡ªA Self-Portrait Entrusted to a Beggar.¡° Modern Japanese Literature 94, pp. 123-135, 2016.
• ¡°Shunr¨­ Oshikawa and the ¡®Patriotic Women of Taiwan¡¯¡ªWith a Focus on Published Novels.¡± Kokugakuin University. Research on the ¡°Patriotic Women of Taiwan,¡± pp. 403-417, 2015.