Waseda University   Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences   Research Associate

Meiji University   School of Global Japanese Studies   Lecturer

Donald Keene Memorial Foundation   Researcher

University of California, Los Angeles   Asian Languages & Cultures Department   Visiting Graduate Researcher

Waseda University   Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences   Global Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies Doctoral Program  

Waseda University   Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences  

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies   School of Language and Culture Studies  

Yanai Initiative  Research Committee

Society for the study of "Shin Seinen”

昭和文学会

早稲田大学国文学会

Allied Occupation Period Japan

Representations of Demobilized Soldiers

Detective Fiction

Representations of War Orphans

Professional Development Seminar

Hirokazu Toeda, Yukari Tanaka, Younglong Kim, Akito Sakasai, Yuri Tokinoya, Yusuke Henry Bent, (Moderator, Christina Yi)

Local Japan, Global Japan: Thinking Forward Through the Past  (The University of British Columbia) 

Presentation date： 2026.03

オブザーバーとしての復員兵──赤沼三郎「夜の虹」にみる探偵小説と復員兵表象の邂逅

Yusuke Henry Bent  [Invited]

『新青年』研究会十二月例会  (Waseda University) 

Presentation date： 2025.12

Demobilized and Criminalized: Representations and Image Formation of Demobilized Soldiers in Immediate Post-War Japanese Detective Fiction

Yusuke Henry Bent  [Invited]

Research in Progress: Presentations on Japanese Literature by Yanai Initiative Winter Quarter Visiting Graduate Researchers  (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)) 

Presentation date： 2025.03

The Two-Headed Society: Horrific Imagery Surrounding Women’s Emancipation in Immediate Post-War Japan in Yamada Futaro’s “The Two Headed Person”

Yusuke Henry Bent

2024-2025 The 3rd PKU-WASEDA Workshop  (Peking University) 

Presentation date： 2024.10

Victims to Perpetrators: Media Representations of War Orphans in Immediate Post-War Japanese Detective Fiction

Yusuke Henry Bent

26th Annual Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)  (Sophia University) 

Presentation date： 2024.07

占領期日本の探偵小説における復員兵表象の研究

Waseda University  特定課題研究助成費（研究基盤形成）

Project Year :

Yusuke Henry Ben

<Japanese Studies>Summary of Excellent Master’s Theses

Yusuke Henry Bent

Bulletin of the Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences of Waseda University   69   866 - 864  2024.03  [Invited]

新刊紹介：和田敦彦著『「大東亜」の読書編成──思想戦と日本語書物の流通』（ひつじ書房、2022年2月）

Yusuke Henry Bent

国文学研究   196   113 - 113  2022.06

【奨学金】2025年度文学研究科柳井イニシアティブ奨学金（早稲田大学）

Modern Japanese Literature (English) D

Meiji University  

Modern Japanese Literature (English) C

Meiji University  

[Interpretation] No Strings Attached: Behind the Scenes of BUNRAKU

College Women’s Association of Japan (CWAJ) Cultural Program Committee  No Strings Attached: Behind the Scenes of BUNRAKU 

[Translation of Explanation Panels] 30th Anniversary of the Setagaya Literary Museum Seeds in the Heart: Donald Keene Exhibition

Setagaya Literary Museum  30th Anniversary of the Setagaya Literary Museum Seeds in the Heart: Donald Keene Exhibition 

[Assistance]「京都 洛南高等学校附属中学校 第一・二学年芸術鑑賞 キーン誠己氏とともに」

京都 洛南高等学校附属中学校  京都 洛南高等学校附属中学校 第一・二学年芸術鑑賞 キーン誠己氏とともに 

[Planning] The Donald Keene Memorial Foundation: "The American who became a Japanese Citizen - The Life of Donald Keene" (Video)

Donald Keene Memorial Foundation  "The American who became a Japanese Citizen - The Life of Donald Keene" 

[Assistant Editor] A Kyogen Performance in Memory of Donald Keene: The "Blue-eyed Taro Kaja"

Donald Keene Memorial Foundation  A Kyogen Performance in Memory of Donald Keene: The "Blue-eyed Taro Kaja" 

[Guest Lecture] Seminar and Conference Culture in Japan

Other

Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia: (ASIA521B) RESEARCH METHODS AND SOURCE MATERIALS IN JAPANESE STUDIES  

[Guest Lecture] Immediate Post-War Japanese Mystery Fiction and the Standardization of Social Discourse as Entertainment

Other

School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University: Japanese Literature after 1945  

[Planning and Management Support] Shadowlands : Reflections on One Hundred Years of Modern Japanese Literature

Competition, symposium, etc.

Global Japanese Studies, Waseda University  

[Editorial Assistance] 『日本近代文学大事典』増補改訂版