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Akihiro Odanaka is Professor of Cultural Resources at the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences of Osaka City University, Japan. His research covers a wide range of research fields, such as modern French theatre, the history of Western theatre, comparative theatre between Western and Japanese works, and the study of culture and representation. He is the author of the award-winning book The Layers of Modern Theatre (Gendai engeki no chisō), which was awarded the 43rd Kawatake prize from the Japanese Society for Theatre Research. Masami Iwai has been Professor in the Faculty of Foreign Studies, Meijo University (Nagoya City), Japan, since 2016. He specializes is a historiography of Japanese traditional theatre from the 17th to the 20th centuries concerning kabuki, bunraku, and other performing arts. Besides his encyclopedic knowledge of Japanese theatre, he has been interested in contemporary British theatre and has translated three plays by Patrick Marber into Japanese: Dealer's Choice, Closer, and Howard Katz. Since 2010, he has been working on a joint research project with Dr. Odanaka.

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