is a Japanese scholar. He is a professor at

Keio University , mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword , type = Private research coeducational higher education institution , established = 1858 , founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa , endowmen ...

, where he has taught

literary theory Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. Culler 1997, p.1 Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history, mo ...

and

American literature American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition thus is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature, but also inc ...

since 1989. As an avid

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

fan, he authored many books and essays on science fiction. He received Nihon SF Taisho prize in 2000 for ''Nihon SF ronsōshi''.

Works

Single authorship

* (1988) ''Saibāpanku amerika'' (サイバーパンク・アメリカ ''Cyberpunk America'') * (1992) ''Gendai SF no retorikku'' (現代SFのレトリック ''Rhetoric of Contemporary Science Fiction'') * (1993) ''Metafikushon no bōryaku'' (メタフィクションの謀略 / ''Metafiction as Ideology'') * (1993) ''Japanoido sengen—gendai nihon SF o yomu tameni'' (ジャパノイド宣言 / ''A Manifesto for Japanoids'') * (1995) ''E. A. Pou o yomu'' (Ｅ・Ａ・ポウを読む ''Disfiguration of Genres: A Reading in the Rhetorics of Edgar Allan Poe'') * (1995) ''Nyū amerikanizumu--beibungaku shisōshi no monogatarigaku'' (ニュー・アメリカニズム—米文学思想史の物語学 / ''New Americanist Poetics'') (revised 2005) * (1996) ''Nyūyōku no seikimatsu'' (ニューヨークの世紀末 / ''New York Decadence'') * (1997) ''Kyōryū no amerika'' (恐竜のアメリカ ''Dinosaur and America'') *(1997) "Comparative Metafiction: Somewhere between Ideology and Rhetoric" * (1998) ''Nihon henryū bungaku'' (日本変流文学 / ''Slipstream Japan'') * (2000) ''Metafā wa naze korosareru—gendai hihyō kōgi'' (メタファーはなぜ殺される—現代批評講義 / ''Metaphor Murders'') * (2006) ''Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America''

As an editor

* (1991) ''Saibōgu feminizumu'' (サイボーグ・フェミニズム ''Cyborg Feminism'') (revised 2001) * (2000) ''Nihon SF ronsōshi'' (日本SF論争史 / ''Science Fiction Controversies in Japan: 1962–1997'') * (2007) ''Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime''

References

External links

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