SOKOLOVA-YAMASHITA Kiyomi (PhD in Arts) was born in Saitama Prefecture in 1972. Completed the doctoral course in arts at Nihon University Graduate School of Art.  Currently a professor at the Department of Literary Arts, Nihon University College of Art. She Majored in modern and contemporary Japanese literature. Her field of research is Japanese modern and contemporary literature. SOKOLOVA-YAMASHITA’s major publications include “Reading MIYAZAWA Kenji” (D-Bungaku Kenkyukai, 1998), “Special Lecture on Women’s Literature: Fumiko, Midori, Akiko, Raitcho, Noe, Yaiko, Misuzu” (Sanseido, 2011), and her articles include “Fumiko HAYASHI’s Cultural Work in Indonesia under the Japanese Military Government: With an Introduction to Her Footprints in Jakarta” (Bulletin of the Faculty of Fine Arts, No. 68, 2018), ” HAYASHI Fumiko’s ‘Front’ and the Pen Corps: What We Can See from the ‘Receipts for military-related expenses for literary figures ‘ (Bulletin of the Faculty of Fine Arts, No. 58, 2013), “Report on Field Research on HAYASHI Fumiko’s Military Service in the South (3) ‘Sumatra: Sumatra as Depicted in “Island of the West Wind,” “Rainbow in the Wilderness,” and “Bokyo(homesickness)” (Bulletin of the Faculty of Fine Arts, No. 57, 2013) , and “Field Report on HAYASHI Fumiko’s Military Service to the South: 1) Trawas Village, Indonesia,” (Bulletin of the Faculty of Fine Arts, No. 55, 2012).