Japanese literature has deep connections with the establishment of modern literature in China and Korea due to some of the founders of modern literature in those countries having come from among Chinese and Korean students who had studied in Japan during the Meiji period.
明治時代の日本への中国人・韓国人留学生の中から文学の担い手が生まれたことにより、日本文学は近代文学としての中国文学・朝鮮文学の成立に深く関わっている。