Azuma launched his career as a literary critic in 1993 with a postmodern style influenced by leading Japanese critics Kojin Karatani and Akira Asada.
In 2003/2004 he settled in Tokyo to conduct researches for the "Japan Foundation" in collaboration with the "Kyoto University", under the supervision of philosopher Akira Asada, on the theme of the 'reversed exoticism' in modern Japan'.
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Akira Asada stated that it is one the best books written in the 90s; however, Hiroo Yamagata pointed out that the book is based on the misunderstanding of Godel's incompleteness theorem.