Musashino City Endowment Course "Modern Liberal Arts Special Lecture"

University-wide　Paid　Application required　fall term　 　face-to-face class　

Musashino City Endowed Course for Fiscal Year 2026: "Special Lecture on Contemporary Liberal Arts"
"Law and Literature"

overview

period	October 9, 2020 (Friday) - January 15, 2020 (Friday)
Day/Period	Friday, 4th period (3:15 PM - 5:00 PM)
Class format	face-to-face class

schedule

Coordinators: Professor IKEDA Akiko (Faculty of Law Asia University) / Professor KIHARA Hiroyuki (Dean of the Faculty of Law Asia University) / Professor TANAKA Kenichi (Faculty of Law Asia University)

time	Lecture content	Lecturer (affiliation, etc.)
Friday, October 9th	Dostoevsky and Nabokov	MATSUMOTO Kenshin (Professor Faculty of Law Asia University)
Friday, October 16th	Yukio Mishima and the Law	KASHIMA Hideki (Professor Faculty of Law Asia University)
Friday, October 23rd	Judgment by law and literature	Tetsuya Motohashi (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Keizai University; Director, Japan Center, International Association of Theatre Critics)
Friday, October 30th	Shylock from a legal perspective	Yoshihiro Yoshimura (Associate Professor of Agriculture, Ryukoku University)
Friday, November 6th	British Liberalism and Shakespeare - Acceptance and transformation in modern Japan	Kohei Uchimaru (Associate Professor Faculty of Letters, Toyo University)
Friday, November 13th	The Formation of English Identity in the Early Middle Ages - On the relationship between law, literature, and identity	Shinobu Wada (Associate Professor Faculty of Law Surugadai University)
Friday, November 20th	Stories of Deviation and Solidarity: Overcoming Division	Maiko Nakamura (Associate Professor Center for University Education, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Friday, November 27th	Law, Language, Literature, and English Education — Insights from Corpus Linguistics —	Jun'e Akutsu (Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Welfare Design, Toyo University)
Friday, December 4th	Depicting "illegal" immigrants - Reading Edwige Dantica's "To My Beloved, Time to Say Goodbye" (2007) -	Kiyofumi Sugiura (Professor Faculty of Business Administration Ryukoku University)
Friday, December 11th	Law and Modern English and American Literature ~The present age is, in essence, an age of tragedy~	Koji Odajima (Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University)
Friday, December 18th	The 1960s student movement and the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law in Kaoru Shoji's "Beware Little Red Riding Hood"	James Dorsey (Associate Professor, Department of Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages, Dartmouth College)
January 8th (Friday)	Law and Period Dramas - The judicial system and judgments of the Edo period -	DANJO Hirofumi Danjo (Professor Faculty of Law Asia University)
January 15th (Friday)	The Old Testament as a Legal Text for Lecture	TANAKA Kenichi (Professor Faculty of Law Asia University)

* Lecturer and themes are subject to change.