Takeshi Kagoshima (born 1978) is a Japanese scholar of modern Japanese literature and intellectual history, and Professor in the School of Liberal Arts at the Tokyo University of Technology. He earned his doctorate from the University of Tokyo after studying in its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and previously served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo. His research focuses on modern Japanese literature, intellectual history, historical memory, and representations of war, colonialism, and responsibility in modern Japan. Widely recognized for examining literary works through the lenses of history and political thought, he has written extensively on war literature, postwar intellectual history, and Japan''s recognition of its wartime past. His notable books include "Going to the Battlefield, Returning from the Battlefield," "Literature in Society," and "Rule and Perpetration: Writers Who Depicted Japan''s Invasion of China."
