Minor Literature, Identity, and Transnational Communities in Imperial Japanese Hansen's Disease Sanatoria

• Project/Area Number: 24K03629
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 02010:Japanese literature-related
• Research Institution: University of Hyogo
• Principal Investigator: 田中 キャサリン 兵庫県立大学, 国際商経学部, 准教授 (50740049)
• Project Period (FY): 2024-04-01 – 2028-03-31
• Project Status: Granted (Fiscal Year 2024)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000); Fiscal Year 2027: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2026: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2025: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2024: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: Hansen's disease / Colonial literature / Japanese literature / Minority literature

Outline of Research at the Start

The immediate targets of this research are writing by ethnic Koreans, burakumin, Russians, Japanese colonial subjects, children, and women wrote about their identity and experiences of diagnosis with Hansen’s disease and quarantine within the Japanese sanatoria system. I