No Future in Sakurai Ami’s Tumorōzu songu: Gender and Body, Past and Present by David Holloway

“…The novel is unusual in Japanese literature for its attention to HIV, which even today remains little acknowledged in social discourse. …”
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Komurasaki. Legenda i jej wieczni kochankowie by Adam Jarosz

“…The story, recurring in Japanese literature, appears also in Czech literature – the writings of Juliusz Zeyer – and in Polish literature of the turn of nineteenth century. …”
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Analysis of the portrayal of women in “Snow Country” through the lens of Mono-no-Aware: Taking the Youko as an Example by Huang Jiaqi

“…Mono-no-Aware is central to traditional Japanese culture and aesthetic consciousness, as well as the essence of Japanese literature. All aspects of Kawabata Yasunari’s masterpiece “Snow Country” are infused with the concept of Mono-no-Aware. …”
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Glucagon-producing mucinous tubular and spindle cell variant of renal cell carcinoma with paraneoplastic diabetes: Case report and review of literature by Ashish Khanna, Sharwan Kumar Singh, Ritambara Nada

“…Only 11 cases in the English and Japanese literature have been reported. We report the occurrence of paraneoplastic hyperglycemia with a rare variant: mucinous tubular and spindle cell variant of RCC. …”
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Écriture du corps dans les romans de ninjas (忍者) de Yamada Fûtarô (山田 風太郎) by Michihiro Nagata

“…In the climate of modern Japanese literature, its excessive aspects make his novels of Ninja stand out particularly.…”
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Tuberculosis of the Spermatic Cord: Case Report by Amine Benjelloun, Abderrahim Elktaibi, Younes Elharrech, Driss Touiti, Omar Ghoundale

“…Most cases were described in Japanese literature. We report a case of tuberculosis of the spermatic cord in a sexually active young man, revealed by a scrotal mass mimicking a tumor of the testicle and discuss the suitable diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, with preservation of the testes and the other sexual organs.…”
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Usjek u hrvatskom antologijskom haikuu by Lovro Škopljanac

“…The second part (“Signified”) discusses the specifics of the kire with examples selected from Japanese literature. Special attention is paid to contemporary cognitive-literary theories and the characteristics which kire shares with metaphor and blending. …”
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Development Economics: What Have We Learned? by Jagdish N. Bhagwati

“…Those who enjoy Japanese literature as much as I do may be interested to know that Natsume Soseki, the great Japanese novelist, was reported to have wanted to become an architect instead when he entered college in 1884, but was advised that “there was no glory in being an architect in such a poor country as Japan, where there would never arise the opportunity of building a great monument of the order of St. …”
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The Quest for Ultimate Truth in Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s “In a Grove” by Eugenia Prasol

“…A unique narrative is created, and it surpasses the modernist strategies, marked by epistemological uncertainty, which is simultaneously the characteristic feature of Japanese literature of the twentieth century, with its ambiguous attitude to truth, reality and fantasy.…”
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Tsubouchi Shōyō and the Beauty of Shakespeare Translation in 1900s Japan by Daniel Gallimore

“…Given Shōyō’s position as the pioneer of Shakespeare translation, not to mention a dominant figure in the history of modern Japanese literature, Ōba’s professional view offers insights into Shōyō’s development that invite detailed analysis and comparison with his rhetorical theories. …”
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Défense et illustration de la « puissance des mots » : les enjeux symboliques du prix Ōe Kenzaburō by Benjamin Giroux

“…Attempting to regain control of the instruments of authorial legitimacy, the prize aims to defend the “power of words” of a reinvented Japanese literature, while possibly seeking to restore the image of an aging writer, rejuvenating him by proxy.…”
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Pembelajaran Mata Kuliah Japanese Vocabulary 2 dengan Metode Gambar by Diah Soelistyowati

“…Japanese Vocabulary 2 courses in Japanese Literature Dian Nuswantoro University are courses that teach Japanese vocabulary which is learned in Kanji letters. …”
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Analysis of the Spanish Translation of a Haruki Murakami’s tale: «Todos los hijos de Dios bailan» (2013) by Hitomi TOYOHARA

“…We’ll show not only the difficulty of the translation of the Japanese literature into Spanish, but also we verify that the readers of the Spanish version are not able to notice some story’s keys. …”
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The Great Library of Japanese Poetry Translated by Alexander Dolin by Dutkina G.B.

“…The author of the review substantiates the assumption that this anthology of Japanese poetry will remain a fundamental publication for generations of Russian lecturers, students, philologists and readers interested in Japanese literature for years to come.…”
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Symbolization of Shonan's Woman: Yagi Yoshinori's "Woman" Research by Uen-Ia JUAN

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Decadence and Japan by Evangelista, S-M, Desmarais, J, Weir, D

“…Yōshū Chikanobu’s color prints reverse the orientalist gaze of Western artists by documenting a Japanese fascination with European culture that traditionalists viewed as a symptom of decadence. As Japanese literature opened itself to cosmopolitan influences, key writers such as Natsume Sōseki, Tanizaki Junichirō, and Mishima Yukio borrowed from Western literatures to provide ambivalent depictions of Japan’s social and cultural changes.…”

Kimura’s disease Mimicking Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: An unusual cause of parotid swelling by S-A-W Fadilah, V Shanty, AS Goh

“…It has been mainly reported in the Chinese and Japanese literature. It is difficult to diagnose before tissue biopsy and fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has limited value. …”
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Black Butler: A Neo-Victorian Jack the Ripper and the Child Detective by Joti Bilkhu

“…I begin by contextualizing Black Butler in regards to Japanese literature, a world literature framework, and the neo-Victorian genre alike. …”
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Literaturwissenschaftliche Japanforschung – Kein Ort. Nirgends? by Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit

“…What is the specific locus and target audience of the study of Japanese literature in the academe and beyond? This paper identifies a number of possible, partly overlapping, disciplinary-scholarly and general reading communities and discusses their different potentials. …”
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Vietnamese and Haiku by Vu Quynh Nhu NGUYEN

“…In 2007, the first Japanese-Vietnamese haiku contest, held in Ho Chi Minh City, attracted not only Vietnamese scholars of Japanese literature but also members of the general public. …”
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