本論文以世界知名的日本作家村上春樹之短編小說「螢」為文本，從台灣日語教育跨文化溝通能力培育的角度檢視「螢」做為日語教材的意義，並探討其內容所述之文化事項的內淌。期待本論文之考察結果有助於日語學習者的日語文化理解能力暨跨文化溝通能力之提升。

In this paper, short story 'Hotaru' of the world-famous Japanese writer Haruki Murakami is taken up as a text. And the possibility of 'Hotaru' as a teaching materials is shown from the view of cross-cultural capability training at Japanese language education in Taiwan. The cultural matter about the contents of ＂Hotaru ＂is considered in meta-language from Japanese Pedagogy. I wish this paper leads to improvement in a Japanese student's Japanese culture understanding capability, and cross-cultural communication skills.