In the following essay, Morrell elucidates the influence on Japanese poetry of Shintaishio, an anthology of western poetry published in Japanese translation in 1882.

In the following essay, Keene charts the transition of Japanese poetry during the Meiji era from traditional tanka and haiku forms to shintaishi, or "new-style poems," and also surveys later innovations in Japanese poetic techniques and themes.

In the following excerpt, Ko traces the influence of the Dada movement on Japanese literature.

In the following essay, Hijiya-Kirschnereit considers the intellectual and artistic currents that form the background to Japanese fiction during the forty years since the end of World War II.

In the following essay, Rolf offers a retrospective of trends in Japanese theater and discusses works by six contemporary Japanese playwrights.

In the following essay, Rimer provides a historical overview of Japanese theater, focusing on three representative works of classical and modern Japanese drama.

In the following essay, Gessel discusses major fiction writers and literary movements that emerged in Japan after World War II.

In the following essay, Rolf analyzes major characteristics of Japanese theater in the 1980s.

In the following excerpt, Kijima presents an overview of trends in Japanese poetry written after World War II.

In the following essay, Sakurai profiles four recent Japanese fiction writers.

In the following essay, Lippit assesses the influence of such western writers as Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire on Japanese writers.

In the following essay, Takahashi provides a survey of Japanese theater from the 1960s to the late 1980s.

In the following essay, Konaka surveys several works exemplary of a Japanese literary genre known as "atomic-bomb literature."

In the following essay, Ooka examines various characteristics that have emerged in Japanese poetry since 1970.