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.

In recent years our MA students have gone on to PhD programs in Japanese literature, art history and religious ... in literary and/or cultural studies of either the pre-modern or modern periods. The ...

His study of representations of same-sex desire in the literature of the interwar period was published in 2011, and his study of poetry written in response to the 2011 disasters in Japan was published ...

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 ...