While integrating my research about the circle movements in the wartime and postwar Japan, I investigated about the activitiies of the popular art movements in overseas territories of Japan and the Internment Camps in the US and analyzed how both movements could be related each other. Regarding the latter movements, I made inverstigations a journal Heart Mountain Bungei published by the Japanese American people at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center and another journal Tsuruoka published by the Japanese internees in the coal pit area of the district in northeastern China. By these investigations, the popular art movements crossing between the war-time and the after-war period can be repalced and estimated historically.

“East Asia” and Japan share a long history and a wide range of integrated culture. However, Imperial Japan and its wars transformed and complicated this relationship, causing further entanglements and overlaps. In many ways, defeated Japan has not taken adequate responsibility for the war it waged, nor for its colonial rule, and frequent disputes over Japan's imperial legacy add to these tensions. Focusing on those who crossed borders of East Asia and their creative activities; writings, paintings, films, and so forth, this research shed light on the relationships emanating from mobilities.

Discussion of cross-cultural contact or collision is not uncommon. This study, based on the working hypothesis that "less than national borders", cross-cultural contact in "less than the border" state, was intended to examine the various aspects of the conflict and invasion. And individual study by Kaken members, field survey, which was conducted with the participation of a large number of members as much as possible (Okinoerabujima, Rishiri Island) through investigation, aimed at those problem-solving. The summary was published together in a featured page of "JunCtute" 07.

11 Co-investigators and 42 Research Collaborators from Japan, Korea and the United States participated in this project. We held many events over the course of three years. An international symposium entitled “Colonial Korean Literature and Culture in Japanese Discursive Space” was held for three consecutive years at Musashi University in 2013, at the University of Niigata Prefecture in 2014 and at Fukuoka University in 2015. Each time, about 40 researchers participated and debated actively. In March 2015, an international workshop entitled “Empire and Language: Translingual Inter-Asia” was co-hosted with Duke University at Duke-Kunshan University in China. In October, an international symposium called “Im-hwa and Proletarian Literature in Korea During the Colonial Period” was held in Tokyo in cooperation with the Im-hwa Association of Korea. In addition, three lectures by American researchers and a lecture by a Korean researcher were hosted

The "postwar" era regards the Cold War regime in general in world history perspective. Under this recognition, "postwar culture" which has been national history manner consideration, our project examined re-grasping the "Cold War culture". The project has been subjected to re-contextualize and inspect the intellectual history of "Japan" in the East Asia, yet the project found "war experience" was a major axis for Japanese intellectual history. The project studied how “the Asia-Pacific War experience" has been reviewed in the postwar era under the influence of the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Also the project especially concentrated on the elucidation of any summary has been made on Okinawa. The Cold War culture was often lay out to movies and popular fiction so that the project also examined Cold War Culture era movies. Our project forged the concept of the Cold War culture through these processes.

In the statement situation of Japan of the 1920~30s, the knowledge of the concept of being abnormal was able to check the circumstances which had curiosity and an inquisitive mind and were circulated to the general public by collection and reproduction work of various original sources. Results, such as book-izing of a paper, digging up of a pop psych magazine, and reproduction treating abnormal mentality of a detective story coterie magazine, were obtained.
Moreover, interdisciplinary symposium could also be held 3 times.

In this project, I carried out a survey the works of art songs in German, east european and French speaking areas in order to clarify the historical process of how Japanese short verses. especially Waka poetry were tranlated into the western lanuages and of how these translated texts were composed as the art songs.
After that I draw up a list of the Waka-songs composed by the German, Austrian, French and east-and-northern composers in the period of 1910s to 1930s and examined the state of their spread in Europe.
My survey was made at the Japanese libraries as well as abroad, at Austrian National Library in Vienna, Berlin State Library in Berlin, and Czech National Library in Prague. As some products, I published an Japanese article on the academic journal and will publish a German version article as one chapter of a collection of essays which will be issued by Swiss publisher in this year.

The present research continues the development of an international research project on modern Japanese culture, which has been conducted until now by the Research Center for Modern & Contemporary Japanese Culture at the Nagoya University Graduate School of Letters to which the representative scholars and research members belonged; it aims examine internationally the issue of trans-cultural and trans-lingual translation and to reconsider this issue as a problem of “trans-frontier culture and translation.” In the 2011 academic year, an international symposium was held in Shangai entitled Traversing Cultural and Media Boundaries: Translation and Transmedia and interdisciplinary research was conducted on the problems of translation. In 2012, applying the results of 2011, we aimed to further restructure this issue within the framework of research on East Asian relations studies, holding an international symposium entitled Towards Studies of East Asian Relations, thus making possible the international and interdisciplinary study of “trans-frontier culture and translation.”

The aim of the Project was twofold. First to question how Globalization Studies can respond and react to the issues addressed in Gender Studies? Second, to try and discover new issues that arise from a dynamic combination of Gender and Globalization Studies. As a method for combining these two disciplines of research the Project chose to focus on the movement and migration of women. Examining the issues involved through the lens of the movement and migration of women-in contrast to a focus on permanent residence in a single State or the idea of a fixed sense of "home"-the limits to State-bound modern knowledge and knowledge-making can be exposed. The Project begun by critically re-examining the methodology of Migration Studies to date and this task culminated in a Symposium, jointly held with the National Museum of Ethnology, entitled "Motion in Place/Place in Motion". The aim of this Symposium was to re-conceptualize the notion of Place-often thought to be fixed and rigid-through that of Motion. Using this re-examination of Migration Studies, the Project further attempted to theoretically clarify the gendering of migration and through creating a new conversation between the Social Sciences and Humanities, explored the issues raised by Gender and Globalization Studies. The Project carried out a Workshop entitled 'Women, Movement Narration", and the issues raised and developed in this Workshop were then presented at both the Australian National University(Canberra, Australia)and Cornell University (USA). Through this Workshop participants were once again made aware that (1), Globalization Studies have entered a new phase, (2), that there is now greater need for studies of female migrants and migration based upon the insights of Gender Studies, and (3), of the necessity of further dialogue between Globalization and Gender Studie

Using Shukan Shokokumin (Weekly National Youth), which was published during the Pacific war until its end, as my text I examined the wartime visual culture of pictures and graphic materials. I examined how these visual materials and the literary representations carried out by authors merged together in some ways, but in other ways could become mutually quite distinct. Also comparing Shonen kurabu (Youth Club), Shokokumin bunka (National Youth Culture) and other youth magazines as well as young women's magazines and visually-oriented magazines aimed at adults such as Asahi Graph, I considerd the meaning of visually-oriented magazines aimed at children during the war. Without just ending my analysis with the conclusion that these materials were simply propaganda, I considerd the relationship between child reader's reactions to these serials and tie-in media events beyond just print culture, including local and school events.

以前より近代詩と朗読との関係については予備的な考察をすすめてきたが、今回の研究では1920年代から50年代というように、ある程度範囲を区切って、なおかつ包括的にその実態の検証と、文学史的な評価、位置づけを与えることにつとめた。幸いにも、本研究によって情報の収集や研究論文の発表など、多くの成果を得ることが出来た。
まず何よりも、範囲を区切ったとはいえ、大正期から戦後までの近代詩史における音声への関心と書記(エクリチュール)の意識との相関性を、かなり大きな視野で系統づけることが出来た。これは従来の作者/作品中心の記述による文学史とは全く異なった表現史的な詩史を構築していく一つの段階を作りえたものと自負している。
各論的には、大正期に詩檀を形成したいわゆる民衆詩派がきわめて積極的に朗読運動を推進したことを再発見し、あらたな評価をそこに与えることが出来た。大正期の近代詩はともすれば民衆詩を史的な事項の中だけで評価しがちだが、これはそれを改める契機にもなろう。また、20年代から30年代にかけてのモダニズムと音声/書記との関わりを分析し、日本におけるモダニズム芸術の特質を、その分析から抽出することが出来た。この研究はモダニズム詩をブロレタリア詩や当時萌芽をみた勤労詩、そして戦時期の戦争詩へとリンクさせることにも意を注いだ。特に戦争詩とモダニズム、朗読運動との関係については従来の私自身の研究をも十分に補訂しえたと考えている。その他、戦後の勤労時運動、あるいは『荒地』『列島』などの戦時詩の中心的な動向と、以下の戦前戦中の近代詩の問題との連続性/不連続性についても研究を発展させることができた。
未知の研究領域でもあるため大量の文献を必要とし、また聞き取り調査なども数度にわたって行った。これらにより充実した成果を得たと自負している。本研究をさらに今後の研究計画にいかしていきたい所存である。