Research keywords (9)：
Japanese Modern Literature
, Proletarian Literature
, Democratic Literature
, Marxism
, International Cultural Exchange
, Magazine Media Studies
, Translation Studies
, Masses
, Tenko (Conversion)
Research theme for competitive and other funds (5)：
2022 - 2025 Creating Bibliographic Catalogues of Eikichi Hashimoto and Sunao Tokunaga: Toward the Construction of a Foundation for the Study of Proletarian Writers of Labor Origin
2018 - 2023 プロレタリア文化運動研究:地方・メディア・パフォーマンス
2019 - 2022 Study on the International Solidarity of Japanese Proletarian Literature in the Pre-War Period: Focusing on the Relationship to Germany and the United States
2016 - 2019 Study on the translation and the acceptance of Japanese proletarian literature in prewar Germany
WADA, Takashi. Anti-Bourgeois Media in the Japanese Proletarian Literary Movement. Humanities. 2022. 11. 6
WADA, Takashi. The proletarian poetry of Sonoo Kobayashi, which only shone for a moment: "You" and "We" against "Him". Fenceless. 2022. 6. 91-110
WADA, Takashi. Time and Place in Sunao Tokunaga's "Tsuma yo nemure (Rest, my wife)": Narrative and Recollection. Shakai-Bungaku (Social Literature). 2022. 56. 33-47
WADA, Takashi. Translation and acceptance of "Taiyō no nai Machi (A Street Without Sun)" in Germany: A story published in fragments as "Japanese 'Germinal'". Shakai-Bungaku (Social Literature). 2022. 55. 107-121
The 'Tenkan-sha': people who have been converted from Shin-kankaku-ha (modernism literature) to proletarian literature
(Cross-Lingual Network 16th Conference 2023)
Anthologies of Japanese atomic bomb literature in East and West Germany: Seit jenem Tag (1984) and An jenem Tag (1985)
(The 85th Congress of the Japan Comparative Literature Association 2023)
Translations of Japanese Leftist Literature in Early East Germany (DDR): Tokunaga Sunao, Kobayashi Takiji, Miyamoto Yuriko
(JAPAN: Literary and cultural representations in communist Europe 2022)
Love between comrades or husband and wife: The Problem of Affection in Japanese Leftist Literature
(Comparative Cultural Studies on the Representation of Heroes, Women and the Dead in Socialist Eurasia 2021)
