Nihon Ryugaku Seishinshi: Kindai Chugoku Chishikijin no Kiseki is Yan Ansheng's study of the experience of Chinese intellectuals who studied in Japan in the modern era. It places their expectations, dissonance, and shifting political consciousness within East Asian history, including the periods around the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars.

A history of Chinese intellectuals studying in Japan, drawn as a mental history where admiration and wariness intersect.

Nihon Bungeishi, in five volumes, is Jinichi Konishi's major history of Japanese literature, shaped by his own periodization and view of literary art. It examines the development of literature from antiquity to the modern and contemporary eras through changes in genre, expression, and reception.

A large-scale literary history that reorganizes the full history of Japanese literature through changes in genre and expression.