Modern Japanese Women's Literature Studies

Focusing on Sata Inako

Name

KOBAYASHI Mieko

E-mailｍkoba@numazu-ct.ac.jp

Job Title

Professor

DegreeDoctor (Literature)

Academic Society and Association
Research Keywords
Technical Fields andpossible for collaboration

The Modern Literature Society of Japan, Sata Inako
StudyGroup, New Feminism Criticism Society

Women
Topics

Details of the Research Theme・ Analysis and Survey on Modern Japanese Literature
・ Ｌｉｖｉｎｇ conditions of women under World War II・ After the Showa War Literary situation analysis

・The dramatic changes and progress of Japanese women in the last 150 years are remarkable. The novels by the female writers
who accurately and accurately depict the women's appearances at that time can be said to be a first-class document that canbe called a historical heritage. The history of women who are rarely at the forefront of society is full of diversity, and knowing
various heroine dramas through literary works is essential for women's manpower. It seems to have great value for thegeneration.
1 . Sata Inaｋo Research
The first step of the research started with proletarian writer Inako Sata (1904-1998) Did. Sata, who was asked for responsibility
for the postwar war about comforting and writing,Investigated and analyzed what novels were written during the war, many ofthem.It crawls up various pains in women, and this creates a lasting resistance
I pointed out that I could read, and put a stone on the evaluation of Sata ("Satain the Showa decade"Inako "(published by
Sobunsha Publishing Co., 2004).
2 . To women's literature research
In parallel with Sata's research, he participated in the “Ｓｅｉｔｏｕ” research of his laboratory, going back to the Meiji and Taisho
eras, the oppression received by women under the patriarchal system, and the intensity of the movement that demanded
freedom created in that period I felt that I was involved in research on the “Ｓｅｉｔｏｕ” participants and research on the publishedworks, and that I was able to come into contact with the history of women through literature to hear the real voices of women
who lived at that time.
From that point on, the interests of female artists such as Nobuko Yoshiya, Fumiko Hayashi, Taiko Hirabayashi and the likebecame the subject of research, including Natsuo Kirino and Mitsuyo Kakuta.

3 . Study of girl novels and children's literature / Future goals
Through the research activities described above, since around 2005, I was able to join the compilation of “Shoujo Novel
Encyclopedia” (Tokyodo Publishing, 2015), which was the first systematic study of Japanese girl novels in Japan. In the courseof that work, I realized that stories and novels I read when I was young have a strong influence on people's self-formation, andI have also expanded my interest in studies of girl novels and children's literature. Currently, I would like to be able to summarize
the achievements of Yoshida (1925-1988) from Fuji City.
While I hope to continue to explore more women's literature and expand my research, I will re-read the work of male writersfrom the beginning and rethink the significance of the field of women's literature, taking into account the relationship between
the two. I want to try it.

Development of Educational Materials on Geography
Name

SATO Takanori

E-mailtsato@numazu-ct.ac.jp

Job Title

Professor

DegreeDoctor of Education

Academic Society and Association

Association of Japanese Geographers
Geographic Education Society of Japan
Japan Cartographers Association.

Research Keywords

Geography, Map, GIS

Technical Fields andpossible for collaboration

Topics・・・Practical Use of Maps, Aerial Photo, Regional statistics
Development of Web maps using the Leaflet, GSI Maps and so on
Support for Geography Education and Visiting Lecture to Schools

Details of the Research Theme

Rediscovery of Geography with Maps in the Digital Age
I am studying about teaching methods of geography education, especially maps.
various digital maps.

Now in the Digital Age, we can use

I am working on the educational web pages with the web map technologies such as Google Maps

API, Leaflet, Cesium and GSI maps.
also based on paper materials.

I am working on making maps for education not only based on digital device but

Information Technology brings us various attractive maps which improve geography

education.

Web map for geography education using

Small globe which is madeStereoscopy of aerial photo

Leaflet and GSI tilesof a ping-pong ballwith the red-blue glasses

Phenomenological study on movement formation
Name
Job Title

SＡＴＯ Makoto
Professor

E-mailmsatoh@numazu-ct.ac.jp

DegreeMaster of

P. E.

Japan Society of Physical Education, Health and Sport
Academic Society and Association

Sciences, Japan Society of Sport Movement andBehaviour, Japan Society of Coaching Studies

Research Keywords
Technical Fields andpossible for collaboration

Phenomenology, Motor Learning, Coaching, Gymnastics
Topics

Details of the Research Theme

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Provision of knowledge about sports coaching
Teaching method for gymnastics
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

It seems easy to start a new movement, but it is a difficult problem. The mechanism of movement is clarified using naturalscience techniques to guide movement. However, just because the mechanism is clarified, it doesn't mean that it will bepossible to master a movement immediately. In order to be able to master a movement, the athlete must be able tomanage the sensory image associated with the movement in his senses and consciousness into the target movement.
What we need to think about is what kind of image the athlete will form, what the material is for that, and how the learner
can image it. We approach this from a phenomenological standpoint.

Studies on Jewish American LiteratureName

SUZUKI Hisahiro

E-mailh-suzuki@numazu-ct.ac.jp

Job Title

Professor

DegreeMaster of Arts (Literature)

The Jewish Literary Society of Japan, The Society of

Academic Society and Association

English Literature, Kanazawa University, and The Councilof College English Teachers

Research Keywords
Technical Fields andpossible for collaboration

Jewish Literature, Jewish Culture, The Holocaust
Topics

Details of the Research Theme

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Studies on the works of Bernard Malamud
Studies on Jewish LiteratureStudies on Jewish Culture

Studies on Jewish American Literature

You can broaden your perspective by learning Jewish culture and literature, focusing on its differences from your own.
Jewish American Literature stared with the Jewish immigrants who escaped persecution in Eastern Europe
in the late 19th century. At its early stage, it was peculiar to their own: the topic of the literature was mainly
their struggles that they went through living in the New World, which had a very different sense of values andculture from theirs. Later, however, the topics became much broader and universal: it depicted how people
should morally live as a human. Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), one of the best Jewish American writers,
has written such books and short stories.
In most of Malamud’s works, it is true that the protagonist is a Jew, and that his books seem to be basedon Jewish culture and history, where they suffered from so much persecution but they endured. However,
he writes about the protagonist’s efforts to live selflessly, responsibly and compassionately in a world wheresuch sense of values is hard to find, and it is much easier not to live in that way. Reading his books help us
find a way to live in a secular and self-centered world.
When you read Jewish literature, you need to understand their culture and history, too. Therefore, I
conduct research on them: how Jewish people live, how they reacted to the Holocaust in the last century,and so on.

University of Texas, Austin, where

Towson University, where I stayedTowson University’s college

they have a lot of literary materials

to conduct research on Jewish

newspaper on my speech on

relating to Jewish American Literature

American Literature

Jewish and Japanese cultures

Study of ancient myths in JapanName

OMURA Hiroshi

E-mailh-omura@numazuct.ac.jp

Job Title

Associate Professor

Degree

PhD in Literature

Academic Society and Association

Association of Early
Association of Kojiki

Research Keywords

Early Japansese Literature, Kojiki, Nihonshoki, Japanese Myths

Technical Fields andpossible for collaboration

TopicsJapanese

Literature,

Study of Early Japanese literature

Details of the Research Theme
Study of Early Japanese literature
The Kojiki text is an important source book for ceremonies and magical practices of ancient Japan. It includes myths,
legends, and historical accounts of the imperial court from the earliest days of its creation up to the reign of Empress
Suiko. It was compiled from oral tradition in 712. My research interests are mythological articles written in The Kojiki.
The purpose of my research is to clarify the relationship between myths and real society in ancient Japan.

Koutei Kojiki by TANAKA Yoritsune

Prehomogeneous Vector Spaces for Dynkin Quivers
Name

KUROSAWA Yoshiteru

E-maily-kurosawa@numazuct.ac.jp

Job Title

Associate Professor

DegreeDoctor of Science

Academic Society and Association

Mathematical Society of Japan

Research Keywords

Prehomogeneous Vector Space, Dynkin Quiver, Linear Algebraic Group

Technical Fields andpossible for collaboration

Topics・・On prehomogeneous vector spaces
On Dynkin quiverｓ

Details of the Research Theme
I study prehomogeneous vector spaces (abbreviated PVs) associated with (valued) quivers.
The ground fields of such PVs may not be algebraically closed.
The theory of PVs is one of methods to construct zeta functions satisfying functional equations.
The oriented graphs whose underlying graphs are the following diagrams are called Dynkin quivers. For PVs
associated with Dynkin quivers of type A, D and E, there are a lot of research results.

In the joint research with Makoto Nagura (National Institute of Technology Nara College) and Tomohiro Kamiyoshi(National Institute of Technology Matsue College), we introduced PVs associated with Dynkin quivers of type B, C,
F and G, that is, valued Dynkin quivers. The ground fields of such PVs are not algebraically closed.
I try to construct a fundamental theory of PVs associated with Dynkin quivers of type B, C, F and G.

Numerical Study of Elementary Particle Physics
Name

KOMA Yoshiaki

E-mailkoma@numazu-ct.ac.jp

Job Title

Associate Professor

DegreeDoctor of Philosophy

Academic Society and Association

The Physical Society of Japan

Research Keywords

Particle Physics, Numerical Simulation, Quantum Chromodynamics

Technical Fields andpossible for collaboration

Topics・

Theoretical Physics

Details of the Research Theme
I am interested in the elementary particle physics.
It is well-known that particles like protons and neutrons, which are generally called hadrons, arebasic ingredient of nuclei. The size of a hadron is quite small such that its typical diameter is about
1/1000 000 000 000 000 meter. Surprisingly, hadrons are not yet fundamental particles and there
exist further smaller particles inside them called quarks and gluons. So far, various collision experimentsof hadrons using accelerators strongly suggest that the dynamics of quarks and gluons are describedby the theory called quantum chromodynamics (QCD). QCD is a quantum gauge field theory associatedwith SU(3) group symmetry, and its lagrangian density is given by

wheredenote the field strength tensor and covariant derivative. "q" and "A" represent the quark and thegluon fields, respectively. The coupling "g" controls the strength of the interaction of quarks andgluons which depends on the energy scale of QCD to be applied. However, it is not straightforward tosolve QCD due to its nonperturbative nature, and there are still unsolved problems even after the
discovery in the 1970s. For instance, one never observe an isolated quark so far in the accelerator
experiment, which means that quarks are somehow confined inside hadrons. This is called quark
confinement problem. Studying nonperturbative nature of QCD, using lattice QCD simulations andeffective low-energy field theories of QCD, is my current research theme.

Making working circumstance active
Name

NARITA Tomoko

E-mailnarita@numazu-ct.ac.jp

Job Title

Associate Professor

DegreeBachelor’s degree

Academic Society and Association

NUFS teacher’s workshop

Research Keywords

SLT, Active Learning, Positive Psychology

Technical Fields andpossible for collaboration

Topics・・

Motivating employees to be active on work
Getting employees positive to English use

Details of the Research Theme
Active and positive learning of languages will make your work and life happier.

The research on how to make active learning of languages happen has been actively worked on for the last fifty
years.

Language learning should be audio-oriented but Japanese schools haven’t taken up new methods in terms ofthat learning phase. With the acquired knowledge of Grammar and reading competence, Japanese workers havequite a high potential of becoming superlative English commanders.
Positive Psychology is a relatively new academic research which has quite a few good research reports on how tomotive people.

It started with an aim to make people happier, and its methods can be applied to businesscircumstances, leading to change of worker’s lifestyle and promotion of business.

The Study on Military and Diplomacy in Ancient China
Name

HIRATA Yoichiro

E-maily-hira@numazu-ct.ac.jp

Job Title

Associate professor

DegreeDoctor of literature

SHIGAKUKAI（THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN）・THE TŌＹŌＳ
ＨＩ-KENKYŪ-KAI（THE Society of Oriental Researchies）・TŌＹŌＳＨＩ-Academic Society and Association

KONWAKAI（THE SOCIETY OF ASIAN STUDIES ）・THE TŌDAISHIKENKYŪ-KAI（The Association of the Study of Tang History）・THENAIRIKU AJIASHI GAKKAI（Society of Inner Asian Studies）

Ancient china・Eastern Eurasia・The history of the Military system・

Research Keywords
Technical Fields andpossible for collaboration

The history of the Diplomatic relations
Topics

Details of the Research Theme・World history for high school students
・Professional lecture on Cinese history

The Study of the Fu-bing Military System from theNorthern Dynasty until the Tang Era

セールスポイント Having a clear understanding of pre-modern Chinese history

My rsearch theme is the history of ancient China’s Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties andthe Sui Tand empire.
In this era, through the activities of Himiko, who is the queen of Yamataikoku, and the dispatchi ofJapanese envoy to the Sui Tang Dynasty, Japan actively interacted with China. As is well known,
Chinese civilization had an enormous impact on Japanese politics, society and culture.
In this way, Japan and China already have more than 2000 years of exchange history. Japan and
China have to open up a new vista of the bilateral relationship on an extension of past relationshiplike this.
China has developed as a world factory and a world market. In the future, the presence of China willdefinitely increase further. For Japanese engineers to be active internationally, it will be necessary tohave a basic knowledge of Chinese history and culture.
Based on such thinking, I am working on my research and lectures for students.

History classes using projectors

Lectures for international students
from Asian countries

Survey of the castle ruins in China

Cultivation of Rich Expressiveness and Humanity
Name

MURAKAMI Mari

E-mailJob Title

Associate Professor

DegreeAcademic Society and Association

murakami@numazuct.ac.jp
Master of Education(English Teaching Methods)

Extensive Reading Association, COCET,
KATE, Japan Gundoku Association
Readers’ Advising, Reading Books to Children,

Research Keywords

Read Aloud in a group (Active Learning)
English Teaching, Extensive English Reading

Technical Fields andpossible for collaboration

Topics・・sharing information on Extensive Reading
script writing or arrangement for Read Aloud

Details of the Research Theme
English TeachingStudents will:・ speak, read, write and listen to English with greater confidence and skill once becoming a working
professional
・develop greater tolerance towards other peoples and their cultures as a member of global community
Extensive English Reading with easy text
(Deliberately reading a large amount of comprehensive text in English)
Students will:・improve reading fluency and reading speed
・enjoy reading a variety of books
・improve vocabulary, expression, and grammar ability, which will lead to writing and speaking ability in
EnglishReading Book Activity
Students will:・increase self-awareness, reflection and critical thinking, meeting various people or situations in stories.
・ become the kind of well-informed, compassionate, sensitive person our increasingly interconnected,
interdependent world needs.
Read Aloud in a group as Cultural Activity
Students will:・read various passages creatively harmonizing mind each other・increase rich expression ability, creativity, cooperativeness, and self-relianceFrom “ουχ ον” to “μη ον”
Name

ODA Shohei

E-mailsoda@numazu-ct.ac.jp

Job Title

Assistant Professor

DegreeMaster of Art

Academic Society and Association

The Society for Science of Literary Art, COCET
Sign / Langage, Imagination, Analogy, Fiction,

Research Keywords
Technical Fields andpossible for collaboration

The Japanese Society for Aesthetics,

Psychoanalysis, Film Studies, Tourism Studies
TopicsAesthetics and Philosophy of Arts
Philosophy
Tourism Studies

Details of the Research Theme
From “ουχ ον” to “μη ον”
Philosophical Studies, Film Studies, and Tourism Studies
Idea, Eidos, God / Dieu / Gott, Geist, Socius, Unbewusste, Money, Power, Objet a, etc., in (especially Western)
Humanities we can find some ‘strange’ objects or ideas (!) which are actually non-existance, these above are merely someexamples of them. They are surely non-existence, nonetheless, we use such objects or ideas without effort. I wonder
why we use such strange objects or ideas and they seem to exist in everyday life. We have a lot of such non-existencein Western Humanities, however they don’t have any proper words to express a lot of such non-existence. So that I use
Greece words “ουχ ον” in order to express them like Jacques Lacan (1901-81), and I decide to take part in these “ουχον”. Since then, there are three research themes in my research : Philosophical Studies, Film Studies, and Tourism
Studies.
Philosophical Studies
My first research field is Aesthetics and Philosophy of Arts, I choose 18th French Philosopher, Étienne Bonnot
de Condillac (1714-80) and his first writing, Essai sur l’origine des connaissances humaines (1746) as my subjects.
Here I show some “ουχ ον” mechanism act in his thought, and then to consider them I consult other philosophers.
Film Studies
The second field is Film Studies, French Multi-Artist, Serge Gainsbourg (1928-91) and his first film called Je
t’aime moi non plus (1976) are my subject. Art and Art works express some “ουχ ον”.
Tourism Studies
The last is Tourism Studies, the tourism can multiplicate “here and now”, and “here and now” can be a sort of
the Augmented Reality with the help of “imagination” or “fiction”. In addition to this, I will develop one of the tourism
study methods as the methods of studying aesthetics, especially of studying aesthetic experiences.
My articles listed below is available, however only ‘Abstract’s are written in English, French, and German.
* Condillac par Derrida : L'analogie comme la méthode* La methode analytique dans l'Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines de Condillac : La logique de lavraisemblance engendree par l'imagination* « La femme n'existe pas » ? : Essai sur Je t'aime moi non plus réalisé par Serge Gainsbourg* From “ουχ ον” to “μη ον”, Identification of “the Tourist Gaze” and “le regard lacanien” : Through a Case Study of Love
Live! Sunshine!!
* Do Students Dream of « Sujet supposé savoir » ? : "Learning Together", Tourism Studies, and/or Jacques Lacan on
Education* Liebesgrüße aus »Fremden« : « Sujet supposé savoir » und « l’hospitalité » in Je t’aime moi non plus

Inheritance and the land ownership in American Literature
Name

Yuko TAKASE

E-mailyuko.takase@numazuct.ac.jp

Job Title

Assistant Professor

DegreeDoctor

The American Literature Society of Japan, The
Academic Society and Association

Japanese Association for American Studies, The
English Literary Society of Japan
19th century American Literature, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman MelvilleResearch Keywords
Technical Fields andpossible for collaboration

Topics・・・American Literature
Film Studies / Cultural Studies

Details of the Research Theme
Inheritance and the land ownership in American Literature
I research the diverse aspects of inheritance and land ownership in nineteenth-century American culture. In the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Lydia Maria Child, different forms of inheritance, especially those linked to property are depicted. The notion of
inheritance is based on a temporal dimension, that is, the time difference between one generation and the next. To inherit what an owner has, such as
title, money, or property means to receive what is left from the death of the previous owner. As transferring the ownership from one person to anotheris the main aspect of inheritance, possession is the focal point of my research.
I have discussed the works of nineteenth-century American writers, who were writing when a national movement of expansion was conspicuous.
The expansionism of this period, triggered by the Louisiana Purchase (1803), is called the “Westward Movement” which is a successive act of landpossession. I want to propose a fresh insight into the notion of inheritance by analyzing the cultural texts of these nineteenth-century writers.
I would like to quote one paragraph from the second novel of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables. In the preface of the novel, thewriter talks about what one generation transfers through the generations as an inheritance.

Not to be deficient in this particular, the author has provided himself with a moral,—the truth, namely, that the wrong-doing of one generation lives into
the successive ones, and, divesting itself of every temporary advantage, becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief; mischief; and he would feel it asingular gratification if this romance might effectually convince mankind—or, indeed, any one man—of the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of illgotten gold, or real estate, on the heads of an unfortunate posterity… (2)It seems that this passage is about the unpleasant succession that falls upon all future generations. “An avalanche” here is used as an extended
metaphor of the negative aspects of inheritance. An avalanche is “a large mass of snow, mixed with earth and ice, loosened from a mountainside,and descending swiftly into the valley below.” In the quote above, it is a large mass of gold or real estate that is descending into the future. Hawthorne
calls the inherited “wrong-doing of one generation” “the folly,” which means a very stupid thing to do, especially one that is likely to have badresults as inheritance occasionally brings about a fatal outcome in the posterity.
I began my analytical journey with interest in the above passage, and I have broadened my perspectives to consider American history, the natureof a house itself, moving house, real estate, Native American title and ownership, and a number of other related areas. In the process of undertaking
this research, I have come to understand that the concept of ownership in America is based upon suppositions and precedents that are unstable andambiguous. This is because the background of American settlement was complicated and unjust: when the settlers arrived on the new continent, Native
Americans were already the owners of the land. Although the phrase “the Discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus” is still common inWesternized historical discourse, the rhetoric of the historical event itself reveals a strong European bias. From the perspective of Native Americans, it
was, rather, an invasion, or an intrusion by Westerners. To whom does America belong? This question might take on increasing weight in myinvestigations.