Research keywords (6):
Japanese Film History
, Japanese Modern Literature
, Comparative Literature
, Resident Korean Literature
, Burnt-out Ruins
, Black Market
Research theme for competitive and other funds (4):
Akito Sakasai. Kaneko Mitsuharu and Memory of the Massacre: from the Psalms of Tokyo Sorrow to the Psalms of Tokyo Wounds. Gendai Shiso. 2023. 51. 10. 88-100
Akito Sakasai. The Poetry about Isolation and the Sanatorium : Resisting Hatred toward People in Sickness. Trandisciplinary Humanities. 2022. 12. 135-157
Akito Sakasai. Envisioning a Scene of Resistance from Post-Human Perspective : Re-reading Ho Nam-gi’s A Song of Matchlock Gun. The Korean Journal of Japanology. 2020. 125. 51-69
Akito Sakasai. Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko: The Fight Against Structural Racism and the Time-Lag of Translation (Zainichi, COVID, #BLM). Zainichi Studies. 2022
Akito Sakasai. To Connect, To Be Connected and The <Testaments>. 2022. 3527. 8-8
The Image of Illegality: The Political Identity and the Legal Status of Zainichi Koreans in Immediate Postwar Japan,' War and Society in Imperial Japan
(The Empire Studies Initiative 2019)
Comment on Kendall Heitzman’s “Yasuoka Shotaro, Nashville 1960, and the Triangulation of History
(Center for Pacific and American Studies 2019)
Forming Political Identity of the Resident Koreans in Japan; Representations of Legal Status in Zainichi Korean Literature in 1950s
(ICLA Annual Conference 2019 2019)
Intersectionality and Beyond: The Politics of the Gendered Body in Imperial Japan
(ASCJ Conference 2019 2019)