Abstract: Although the teaching of Japanese as a foreign language began in Brazil around the 1980s, still as a teaching linked to the transmission of a heritage language, and over the years, the creation of undergraduate courses, which would train teachers qualified to teach the Japanese language, it started to think about a teaching focused on the needs of a foreign language teacher who had access not only to grammatical norms, but also (and mainly) to the culture of that nation, the demand for the teaching of Japanese also arose. Japanese literature, at present, there are still no research that discuss the teaching of foreign literature in undergraduate courses. The Japanese Literature course at Unesp, Assis campus completes 30 years of foundation this year, and reflecting not only on the development of the students' linguistic ability, we intend in this work to briefly discuss and propose reflections on the teaching of Japanese literature in the Brazilian context, thinking in the formation of a reflective teacher who not only teaches grammar by rule, but understands the reality, society and culture in which this language is inserted. Our main objective is also to reflect on the role of academia in the discussion of gender studies in other societies and how we can spread interest among students, expanding their critical knowledge about culture beyond the production of the canonical mainstream.