Humanitext Project Featured in The Nikkei
9/18/2025
Humanitext Project Featured in The Nikkei
We are pleased to announce that on September 17, 2025, the Humanitext project was featured in a prominent article by The Nikkei, Japan’s leading business newspaper, both in print and online.
Article Title: “Asking Osamu Dazai, ‘What is Love?’ – Nagoya University’s Dialogue with Literary Giants via AI”
The article highlights the innovative efforts of the Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Nagoya University to merge information science with the humanities. The report focuses on the Humanitext project’s AI dialogue systems, detailing a journalist’s experience using “Humanitext Aozora” to pose questions to the renowned author Osamu Dazai.
The piece explains how our system leverages the vast text data of Aozora Bunko to generate reliable, source-based responses, effectively mitigating the “hallucination” problem often associated with generative AI. It also touches upon how “Humanitext Antiqua” is being used in university classrooms to foster interactive learning and deeper engagement with the ideas of ancient philosophers. The article captures our project’s vision of making the profound knowledge of the humanities more accessible and impactful through digital technology.
We invite you to read the full story at the link below.