This site summarizes the current state and the preliminary results of the research project titled “The Japanese Watakushi shôsetsu/shi shôsetsu as Seen in Relation to Asian Culture: Comparison with Asian-Language and English Translations as an Opportunity,” (Katsumata Hiroshi, Research Coordinator), funded by a 2006 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C). This research is positioned as an extension of the advances made by the Watakushi shôsetsu/shi shôsetsu Research Group of the Graduate School of Hosei University in the course of publishing the journal Watakushi shôsetsu/Shi shôsetsu  Kenkyû.  It is an attempt to break free from the heretofore dominant assessment that takes Western literature as the standard of comparison, and to get a better grasp on the watakushi shôsetsu/shi shôsetsu through comparisons with East Asia, which is more similar to Japan in language, climate, and cultural background.

Workshop 1
Keynote Presentation: Recognition of the watakushi shôsetsu/shi shôsetsu in Japan, China, and Korea, and the problem of language

8/20/2006 (Sunday)
Keynote Presentation: Jin Myoung Sun (Youngsan University), “An analysis of the perception of the watakushi shôsetsu/shi shôsetsu in the area of Pusan”

8/21/2006 (Monday)
Keynote Presentation: Yang Tian Xi (Hirosaki University), “Distinctive characteristics of Chinese and Japanese as seen in the case of translation”

8/22/2006 (Tuesday)
Keynote Presentation: Kangwoo Won Young (Han Yang University), “Recognition of the watakushi shôsetsu/shi shôsetsu in Korea”

8/23/2006 (Wednesday)
Keynote Presentation: Lee Han Jung (Han Yang University), “Recognition of the watakushi shôsetsu/shi shôsetsu in Korea, and the problem of language”

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Research Session 1
Japanese literature in Taiwan: Recognition of the watakushi shôsetsu/shi shôsetsu

11/24/2006 (Friday)
Keynote Presentation: Lee Wen Ju (Tzu Chi University), “Japanese literature in Taiwan: Recognition of the watakushi shôsetsu/shi shôsetsu”

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Workshop 2
The relationship between various aspects of modernization and modern literature in Japan, China, and Korea

1/14/2007 (Sunday)
Keynote Presentation: Yoon Sang In (Han Yang University), “What is the Japanese shôsetsu for Koreans?”

1/15/2007 (Monday)
Keynote Presentation: Yang Wei (Sichuan International Studies University), “Chinese post-New Era woman writers’ expression of individuality and its historical background, together with a comparison with the Japanese watakushi shôsetsu/shi shôsetsu”

1/16/2007 (Tuesday)
Keynote Presentation: Kangwoo Won Young (Han Yang University), “The Japanese watakushi shôsetsu/shi shôsetsu and the Korean autobiographical novel”

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