In studying Bowles, his aim is to bring new attention to an underappreciated oeuvre by moving past the Existentialist context in which it is often framed, and highlighting its relevance to current tensions between Islam and the non-Muslim world. His studies of Bowles’ novels and stories have appeared in The Journal of the American Literature Society of Japan and numerous other journals. He also contributed a study of the novelist Richard Ford to Postmodern America: American Novels of the 1980s (Tokyo: Kaibunsha, 2009), and his own fiction has appeared in Northwest Review, Salt Hill, and other American literary journals.