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NAITOU Yositada

Department / Course College of Letters Japanese Literature Program

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Letters
2.	Kinugasa Research Organization Institute of International Language and Culture Studies

Academic background
1.	～2008/03	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Japanese Literature Major │ Graduate School, Division of Letters │ Ritsumeikan University │ Completed Ph.D.Literature
2.	～2002/03	Master Course │ Japanese Literature Major │ Graduate School, Division of Letters │ Hanazono University │ Completed
3.	～1997/03	Japanese Literature Major │ Faculty of Literature │ Ritsumeikan University │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2020/04/01 ～	Professor │ Department of Humanities, Japanese Literature Major │ Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Letters
2.	2020/04/01 ～	Professor │ College of Letters, Department of Humanities, Japanese literature Major │ Ritsumeikan University
3.	2016/04/01 ～ 2020/03/31	Associate professor │ Graduate School of Letters, Department of Humanities, │
4.	2016/04/01 ～ 2020/03/31	Associate professor │ College of Letters, Department of Humanities, │
5.	2015/04/01 ～ 2016/03/31	Associate professor │ College of Letters, Department of Humanities, │
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Committee and society
1.	2016/12 ～ 2017/12	Association for Japanese Social Literary Studies a member of the editional board
2.	2016/01 ～ 2018/12	Japanese Literature Association a member of the committee
3.	2015/06 ～	Association for Japanese Social Literary Studies a director/councilor of Kansai branch
4.	2015/04 ～	Ritsumeikan University, Association for Japanese Literary Studies member of councilor/ the editional board
5.	2015/04 ～	Ritsumeikan University International Institute of Language and Culture Studies menber of management committee and planning committee
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Research activities
1.	2004/01 ～	Association for Modern Japanese Literary Studies
2.	2004/11 ～	Association for Showa Literary Studies
3.	2007/12 ～	Association for Japanese Literary Studies
4.	2008/01 ～	Association for Japanese Social Literary Studies
5.	2015/04 ～	The Literary Association of Ritsumeikan University
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Research summary
Research on the debates on National Literature(Kokumin Bungaku) ,Politics and Literature(Seiji to Bungaku) ,Overcoming Modernity(Kindai no chokoku) 　　　　My research interests center on Japanese modern literature, particularly wartime and postwar fiction and criticism. Specifically, I am interested in the debates on “Politics and Literature(Seiji to Bungaku)”, “National Literature(Kokumin Bungaku)”, and “Overcoming Modernity(Kindai no chōkoku)” which took place during the 1930s-1950s and influenced the literature of the time. 　　　　Debates on “Politics and Literature” broke out in the years 1932 and 1946, “National Literature” in 1937 and 1952, and “Overcoming Modernity” in 1942 and 1959. This sequence of debates took on what are perhaps the most significant issues in Japanese modern literary history, “Marxism” and “Nationalism” in Japanese modern literature. 　　　　It was a time of war: the War between Japan and China, World War Ⅱ, the Korean War, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. Can literature change a world of war? 　This was a serious question in the debates. 　　　　And yet, during these debates, authors took a stand against war on one hand while cooperating with war on the other. In the complex context of revolutionary theory and national ideology, how did authors confront War? And why couldn't they stop War? I have been working on these matters as a literary problem.

Present specialized field
Japanese Literature (Keyword：Japanese modern literature, The postwar literature, The wartime literature, Nationalism, Politics and Literature, National Literature, Overcoming Modernity, Proletarian literature, Peasant literature)

Books
1.	2021/06	" Tenkō : Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan " │ (Co-authored)
2.	2019/02	"Revolutionary Arts, Proletarian Cultural Movement " │ (Co-authored)
3.	2017/10	Documents of the Proletarian Cultural Movement of the prewar Shôwa Era │ (Co-authored)
4.	2014/10	Rethinking the postwar history of Japan: to grasp‘cracks of history’ │ (Co-authored)
5.	2014/02	The Strategy of Kokumin Bungaku (National Literature): Reason and its Impasses in Criticism of the Proletarian Literature Movement │ (Sole-authored)
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Papers
1.	2021/02	Hirotsu Kazuo " Wandering Ryukyuans " and capitalism: Difficulty in recalling 'invisible threads' │ Ryukoku University Japanese Literary Series (Kokubungaku Ronsou) │ (No.66),pp.pp.62-84 (Sole-authored)
2.	2019/12	"Truth " and "what is plausible ": Conversion and literature in Nakano Shigeharu and Hayashi Fusao. │ Nashi no hana tsūshin / Study group for Nakano Shigeharu │ (No.68),pp.pp.16-24 (Sole-authored)
3.	2016/09	Abe Kobo's "Intruder" in the globalization era │ Fenceless │ (4),pp.39-52 (Sole-authored)
4.	2015/11	The heart of the debate on Natsume Soseki's "Kokoro": the other side of the issue of 〈author〉 │ “What is the writer / author? :text, classroom, subculture” Edited by Kansai branch of Association for Modern Japanese Literary Studies, Izumi Shoin │ ,pp.62-78 (Sole-authored)
5.	2015/10	Noma Hiroshi's “Zone of Emptiness” and Nishikawa Nagao's Critique of the Nation State: Rifts in the National Body/ Nation's Bodies │ Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture(Ritsumeikan GengoBunka Kenkyu) │ 27 (1),pp.35-49 (Sole-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2018/12/08	“Truth” and “What is plausible”: Conversion (=Tenkō) and Literature in Nakano Shigeharu and Hayashi Fusao. (Meeting of Study and Lecture for Nakano Shigeharu)
2.	2018/06/02	The issue of era caused by‘Meiji restoration centenary’:“Daitouasenso Koteiron (positive view on the Greater East Asia War)” and fluctuation of the postwar value. (The Spring Conference,Kansai branch of Association for Modern Japanese Literary Studies)
3.	2017/07/01	The problem of Literary "Truth": Conversion (=Tenkō) in Nakano Shigeharu and Hayashi Fusao. (Tenkō in Trans-War Japan: Culture, Politics, History)
4.	2015/12/27	The problem of ‘Neo’-colonialism in Abe Kobo's "Intruders (The 21th Workshop on Japanese Culture during the Occupation and the New Beginnings Period)
5.	2015/09/21	Time lag after the war 70 years: resistance to the "postwar" by Japanese postwar literature (The Third workshop of Cross-Lingual Network)
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Other research achievements
1.	2020/12	Editorial note (Studies of Japanese Literature(Ritsukmeikan Daigaku Ronkyu Nihon Bungaku), (No.113))
2.	2020/05	[Book review] "Declaring will and spirit of rebellion: Modern society in light of modern Japanese literature" (Modern Japanese Literary Studies (Nihon Kindai Bungaku), (No.102)p.163)
3.	2019/07/06 ～ 2019/08/18	" Proletarian Art Matters Now: The Showa Era's Little-Known Mass Culture Movements" (Municipal Otaru Literature Museum)
4.	2019/03	Eyes on drinking and eating: Uranishi Kazuhiko's Journal Research on Food Culture and Sense of Taste (Fenceless, (No.5) pp.113-118)
5.	2018/10	The meaning of commemorative for Meiji Restoration 150 years (Newsletter of Association for Modern Japanese Literary Studies Kansai branch (Nihon Kindai Bungakukai Kansai-shibu Kaiho), (No.28) pp.6-7)
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Works
1.	2021/06/07	Disease of the body and disease of society : reading Hayama Yoshiki's " The Prostitute (Imbaifu) ". (at Ritsumeikan University)

Achievements of joint.Funded research
1.	2020/04 ～	"The Present and Past of the "Shrinking Society": Questioning the Roles of "Women" and "Children │ Joint Research inside the organization │ Ritsumeikan University Research Institute Budding Researchers Project

Activity in society
1.	2021/10/08	Ritsumeikan University Serial lecture by International Institute of Language and Culture Studies, Contact with the "disease" - Memorizing the disaster: part1 "Wounds and diseases left by war"
2.	2018/10/12	Ritsumeikan University Serial lecture by International Institute of Language and Culture Studies, Japanese immigrants in Hawaii──thinking from the 150th anniversary: part2 "Literature and Immigrants
3.	2017/10/20	Ritsumeikan University Serial lecture by International Institute of Language and Culture Studies, Immigrants, Refugees and Nation-States── Contact and Exclusion: part3 "Shanghai as the Contact Zone: Diverse Aspect of oppsition that emerged from literature and the print media.
4.	2011/06/26	Symposium: Rethinking culture and literature in the 1960's
5.	2009/11/07	The 30th anniversary of the Kansai branch foundation, Japan-Korea co-hosting special plan "Literature which crossed over the sea (1): centers on the relationship between Japan and Korea"