New Steps in Japanese Studies - Kobe University Joint Research

This volume presents the outputs of the joint-research project Innovative Japanese Studies through International Cooperation: The Fostering of Young Researchers by Cooperation with Overseas Institutes of Japanese Studies, conducted by the Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University, Japan as part of the Program for Advancing Strategic International Networks to Accelerate the Circulation of Talented Researchers, and nanced by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). From October 2013 to March 2016, young researchers and scholars from Kobe University and from their European project-partners, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, University of Oxford and University of Hamburg, gathered at several conferences and workshops held in Japan and Europe to discuss and develop new perspectives in Japanese Studies under a multidisciplinary and comparative approach, with contributions herein collected, ranging from Literature and Socio-Cultural Studies to Linguistics and Language Teaching.