# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Japanese Feel-Good Literature: What Are We Talking About?
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: KYOTO LECTURES 2026 

Wednesday, June 17th, 18:00 JST 

Japanese Feel-Good Literature: What Are We Talking About?

Speaker: Thomas Garcin
 

Japanese feel-good literature has enjoyed considerable success in Europe, particularly in France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. However, the category of “healing fiction” or “feel-good fiction” is neither as self-evident nor as widespread in Japan. What does this say about the reception of “Japanese feel-good fiction” in Europe? Is this label blurry and irrelevant in and of itself? Should we distinguish different trends within “Japanese feel-good” literature? By addressing these questions, this lecture aims to provide a better understanding of the perceptions and realities underlying the “Japanese feel-good” phenomenon.

 

Thomas Garcin is an associate professor at Paris Cité University and currently serves as director of the French Research Institute on Japan (IFRJ-MFJ), Tokyo. He edited Mishima, Écrits sur le théâtre (2023) and co-edited Mishima revisité (2025). His current research focuses on Japanese healing fiction and its commodification.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pr9SzLvJwtpLJNfKjKRMvNDm3MQgNW6I/view?usp=drive_link

This hybrid lecture will be held on site and via Zoom.
Registration from : https://forms.gle/B4btXxNs2a724djD8

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82771534635
Meeting ID: 827 7153 4635

Venue: EFEO Kyoto, 29 Kitashirakawa Bettō-chō, Sakyō-ku, Kyoto 606-8276 

École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) 
Italian School of East Asian Studies (ISEAS) 
co-hosted by Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 

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- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kyoto/japanese-feel-good-literature-what-are-we-talking-about/200030131461214
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Meetups, Nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Kyoto
- **state**: KY
- **country**: Japan
- **location**: École française d'Extrême-Orient - EFEO Kyoto
- **lat**: 35.030769473974
- **long**: 135.79124629498
- **full address**: École française d'Extrême-Orient - EFEO Kyoto, 京都府京都市左京区北白川別当町２９,Kyoto, Japan

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Japanese Feel-Good Literature: What Are We Talking About? being held?
  - **A:** Japanese Feel-Good Literature: What Are We Talking About? takes place on Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm at Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient - EFEO Kyoto, 京都府京都市左京区北白川別当町２９,Kyoto, Japan.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Japanese Feel-Good Literature: What Are We Talking About??
  - **A:** Japanese Feel-Good Literature: What Are We Talking About? is organized by Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient - EFEO Kyoto.

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