Associate Professor of comparative literature at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Main research fields include: modernization and exoticism from the perspective of Female Representations, European fin-de-siècle literature and modern Japanese literature, her current research includes studies of expansion and transformation of a culture through translation and adaptation, focusing on Japanese “pop-texts”in global contexts. Major publications include: Ruptures and Continuities of Japanese Modernization: Perspectives on Japan’s Modern Transformation.