was a Japanese journalist and political critic.

Life

He was born in Hyogo Prefecture. Having graduated from the Department of Law of

Tokyo University The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

, he joined the East-Asiatic Commercial Intelligence Institute at Tokyo of the

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. (The name of this institute was changed to the East Asiatic Economic Investigation Bureau.) Later he joined the

Asahi Shimbun is a Japanese daily newspaper founded in 1879. It is one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. The ''Asahi Shimbun'' is one of the five largest newspapers in Japan along with the ''Yom ...

and in 1945, he became head the editorial board and wrote essays in Tensei Jingo. In 1947, he headed the Department of Publication of Asahi Shimbun. Later he became Instructor at

Dokkyo University is a private university in Sōka, Saitama, Japan, which is a liberal, co-educational institution noted for its language education programs and international exchanges. The university was founded in 1964, its roots can be traced back as early as ...

, and a member of the

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's University

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committee and a member of other public committees.

His Books

*Revisionism of

Eduard Bernstein Eduard Bernstein (; 6 January 1850 – 18 December 1932) was a German Marxist theorist and politician. A prominent member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), he has been both condemned and praised as a "Revisionism (Marxism), revisi ...

translation, Shueikaku, 1920 *''

Karl Marx Karl Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet '' The Communist Manifesto'' (written with Friedrich Engels) ...

and

Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels ( ;"Engels"
''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''.Nakae Chomin Nakae (written: 中江) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Daisuke Nakae (born 1985), Japanese professional wrestler * Masato Nakae (1917–1998), United States Army soldier * Shinji Nakae (1935–2007), Japanese voic ...

.'' Kokudosha, 1956 *''Ogata Taketora.'' Jiji Tsushinsha, 1962 *''20 Postwar Years of Okinawa.'' Jijitsushinsha, 1966 *''Jinbutsu Mangekyo.''

, 1967 *''Okinawa Taiwan Diary.'' Jijitsushinsha, 1968 *''5 Distinguished Journalists -

Nakae Chomin Nakae (written: 中江) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Daisuke Nakae (born 1985), Japanese professional wrestler * Masato Nakae (1917–1998), United States Army soldier * Shinji Nakae (1935–2007), Japanese voic ...

Taguchi Ukichi was a Japanese historian and Georgist economist of the Meiji period, and one of the foremost proponents of the '' bunmeishi'' view of history. He was elected to the House of Representatives of Japan in 1894. He is sometimes referred to as "the Ja ...

Miyake Setsurei was a Japanese philosopher and author. He helped found the Society for Political Education and its magazine ' (日本人, later known as ''Nihon Oyobi Nihonjin''). Biography He graduated from the University of Tokyo's Department of Philosoph ...

Hasegawa Nyozekan Hasegawa Manjirō (長谷川萬次郎, né Yamamoto, November 30, 1875 – November 11, 1969), known by his pen name , was a Japanese social critic and journalist during the Taishō and Shōwa eras. He was one of the most important and widely ...

, Ogata Taketora.''

, 1973

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaji, Ryuichi The Asahi Shimbun people 1896 births 1978 deaths 20th-century Japanese journalists