本研究報告為94年度國科會人文學研究中心【人文學熱門及前瞻學術研究議題調查計畫】〔外文學門熱門及前瞻學術研究議題調查計畫〕「日本文學部份」之研究報告再經過補充改寫而成。以日本具代表性的專業期刊「日本近代文學會」的機關誌《日本近代文學》第64期至第74期（2001年5月至2006年5月）共5年半11期計137篇發表的論文為依據樣本所做的統計分析成果。調查分析的目的在於密切掌握日本文學研究的現況及發展趨勢，藉以認知國際學術發展潮流，提供國內學術研究者在研究上取得適當明確的定位。調查分析結論而言，「日本近代文學」領域的前瞻議題仍集中於跨越文本或作家的書寫策略而與「斷代」與「文化」專業相結合，並有點固執地堅守國族論述的「地緣研究」，而朝印刷文化（新聞媒體文化）之科技類的物質文化研究議題進行開發中。這是此次調查所觀察出的重要成果，希望不僅是「日本近現代文學」學門而已，也能夠提供相關外國文學研究領域參考使用之。

This research report is a revised version based on an original research on the current publication status of Japanese literature in “The Investigation Program for Current and Emerging Research Topics in Humanities Studies,” sponsored by the Center for Humanities Research, National Science Council in 2005. This report is a statistical analysis according to the sampling from 137 published articles in eleven issues (No. 64 [May 2001] ~ No. 74 [May 2006]) of Nihon Kindai Bungaku (Modern Japanese Literature), the most representative, professional journal and official mouthpiece of the “Association for Modern Japanese Literary Studies.” The purpose of this investigation is to closely grasp the current status and trend of development in Japanese literature research. Also, hopefully it will supply the domestic academic researchers with a clear and appropriate direction in their research works. As the conclusion is concerned, the current topics in Japanese modern literature are still focused on period and culture studies concerning trans-textual or trans-writerly strategies. These geographically confined nationalistic discourses aim at approaching and engaging more issues related to studies on media culture. We hope to offer references not only to the field of Japanese modern and current literatures, but also to the field of all relevant foreign literatures.