Itoda Soichiro
Soichiro Itoda received his doctorate in 1990 at the RWTH Aachen University with a thesis on Karl Leberecht Immermann. After teaching German Literature at Meiji University in Tokyo for several years, he was granted the status of Emeritus Professor in 2021. His publications include, above all, »Berlin und Tokyo - Theater und Hauptstadt« (Munich 2008). Current interest: German-Japanese cultural contacts, Nietzsche's poetry.