Jun Tosaka

Jun Tosaka

Jun Tosaka (戸坂 潤, Tosaka Jun, 27 September 1900 – 9 August 1945[1]) was a Shōwa era Japanese intellectual, and teacher. He was born in Tokyo in 1900. He attended Kyoto Imperial University. He was interested in Nishida Kitaro, and Tanabe Hajime, neo-Kantianism, and then Marxism. He was a member of the Kyoto School. In 1938, he was arrested under the Peace Preservation Law. He died in Nagano Prison before the end of World War II.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Tosaka Jun". Kotobanku (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  2. ↑ William Theodore De Bary (April 13, 2005). Sources of Japanese Tradition: Volume 2, 1600 to 2000. Columbia University Press. p. 932.

Further reading

  • Ken C. Kawashima; Fabian Schäfer; Robert Stolz (2013). Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader. Cornell University East Asia Program.
  • "MacArthur Ousts High Jap Official, Fires Police Heads". The Daily Times. Oct 3, 1945.
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