Guided Tour

Who studies what?

Map the intellectual landscape of Japanese literary studies: which authors dominate scholarly attention, which topics cluster together, how advisors shape student research, and where institutional expertise lies.

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Modern Japanese Literature Dashboard

Start with an overview of modern literature dissertations: most-studied authors, trending topics, temporal distribution.

This filtered dashboard focuses on the field's core: modern prose fiction.

2

Institutional Signatures

Discover distinctive research topics by institution—each university has its specialties.

Does Columbia focus on different authors than Berkeley? What makes a "Stanford dissertation"?

3

Advisee Drift

Measure how much students diverge from their advisors' research topics.

Do certain advisors encourage exploration? Do others reproduce their own interests?

4

AJLS Topics

Analyze conference presentation topics to see what the field collectively values.

Conference themes reveal current intellectual priorities and emerging trends.

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Schools & Clusters

See how institutions cluster by research similarity—are there distinct "schools of thought"?

Network analysis reveals hidden intellectual communities based on shared topics.

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Thematic Analysis

Explore NLP-based classification of literary works by themes, tones, motifs, and narrative modes.

What themes dominate Japanese literature? How do they correlate with scholarly attention?

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Journal Wordclouds

Visual comparison of keyword frequencies across major journals.

Each journal has its own intellectual fingerprint—what distinguishes them?