The Centre and the Periphery

Abstract

As a Japanese author who habitually writes in the Japanese language, I feel uncertain whether I will be able to express myself in English. But this feeling of uncertainty compels me to try writing in English about the Japanese cultural paradigm, so that this paradigm is understood in the Western world even before the cross-cultural encounter in the literature of modern times can be examined in relation to Japan. My English itself can be a sort of pathological specimen, which may be worth looking at by specialists in the cross-cultural encounter.