Yoshiaki Otta

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Yoshiaki Otta is a research associate in the Department of Language and Information Sciences at the University of Tokyo. His current research focuses on modern Japanese literature depicting anti-colonial resistance movements in the “South,” a region encompassing contemporary Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. His recent articles include “Homoerotic Solutions: Colonial Queer Desire and Postwar Sexual Politics in Ōta Ryōhaku’s ‘Kurodaiya’ (1949)” Journal of Japanese Studies (February 2023), which received the Kenneth B. Pyle Prize for Best Article in JJS. His new article “To Africa: Deislandization and Pseudocontinent in Yano Ryūkei’s Ukishiro monogatari (1890)” will be published in Journal of Asian Studies in November 2024.

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