On Friday, April 25th 2025, the Japanese Language and Culture Undergraduate Study Program of Diponegoro University held a literature themed open lecture via ZOOM Meeting platform as a part of World Class University Visiting Professor Program by presenting Professor Junsaburo Kamitani, M.Ed., Ph.D., from Kagoshima University, Japan, as the speaker. This literature open lecture presenting a theme about “Characteristics of Literary Teaching Materials in Japanese School Education and How to Read Them”. The meeting were led by Dian Annisa Nur Ridha, S.S., M.A., as the moderator and Budi Mulyadi, S.Pd., M.Hum., as translator. This meeting is attended by all the lecturer of Japanese Language and Culture Undergraduate Study Program, all of the class of 2023 and also the class of 2022 and 2021 students that took the literature specialization.
On this meeting, Professor Kamitani breaking down the essentials of the literature materials that are going to be teached to the primary education students across Japan. Professor Kamitani also pointing out that the most important thing on a literature works are the writer, that manifest their story through the narrator of the story. On literature works, narrator had two point of views, first person point of view that likened to one’s taking a selfie on their smartphone and third person point of view that likened to a drone that has limited view, viewing from far, and even all knowing about the narrator. The narrator point of views hold great significance on teaching materials because the literature works that are going to be given to the students are chosen by the point of views of the works. The early grades students are most likely to read a third person point of view works that’s easier to understand before gradually going through the more complex works. The audience are eager to ask questions to Professor Kamitani and in the end, seven questions were answered by him with assistance from Budi Mulyadi to translate the questions from Indonesian to Japanese. Professor Kamitani gave his appreciation to the spirited audience and sincerely hope this meeting are going to be a great stepping point to the world of literature.