The Modern period in Japanese literature overlaps the reigns of three Emperors: Meiji (1868-1912), Taishō (1912-1926), and early Shōwa (1926-1945). Similar to American writers, Japanese writers of the ...

The bloodlines of modern Japanese lie with immigrants from the Korean Peninsula who arrived in the archipelago during the Yayoi Pottery Culture Period (1000 B.C.-A.D. 250), new research suggests.

Holocaust literature, war studies, avant-garde poetry. The modern and contemporary researchers have in common a tough-minded, historicist approach to theory, including reflection on race, trauma, text ...

The program boasts four professors with specializations in the literature and performing arts of classical, medieval, early-modern and modern Japan. In recent years our MA students have gone on to PhD ...

A new study suggests that modern Japanese have descended from three ancestral populations, including people in the Kofun Period between the third and seventh century. According to current ...