Abe Isoo

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Abe Isoo

Abe Isoo ( Japanese 安 部 磯 雄 ; * February 4, 1865 in Fukuoka ; † February 10, 1949 in Tokyo ) was an important Christian-social parliamentarian , intellectual and pacifist with an important influence on political Japan before, between and after the world wars.

biography

The high from the Japanese Samurai originating -Adel Abe Isoo graduated from 1879 to 1884 to study at the private, of Niijima Jō founded Protestant dominated Doshisha Eigakkō (now Doshisha University ) in Kyoto, where he was baptized a Christian and 1,882th This was followed by study visits to the Hartford School of Theology (1891–1895) and also to the Humboldt University in Berlin . After his return in 1895 he became a lecturer at the Dōshisha, later at the Tōkyō Semmon Gakkō (today: Waseda University ).

On May 19, 1901, he was one of the co-founders of Shakai Minshutō alongside Katayama Sen , Kawakami Kiyoshi , Kinoshita Naoe , Kōtoku Shūsui and Nishikawa Kōjirō . In a statement, the party called for the abolition of the kizokuin , the introduction of universal suffrage, and the reduction and abolition of military armament programs. When the party failed to comply with a request from the Tokyo police to remove the passage relating to Kizokuin from its statement, it was banned that same year. In the following years he participated in various political groups and unions. In 1928 he moved for the Shakai Minshūtō ( 社会 民衆 党 , "Socialist People's Party") in the Japanese House of Commons . After the successor party Shakai Taishūtō supported the exclusion of Saitō Takaos from parliament for a speech criticizing the war against China in February 1940 , Abe left them with a few others and withdrew from politics.

baseball

Abe was also an important supporter of baseball in Japan : he founded the baseball club of today's Waseda in 1901 and was, among other things, the first chairman of the League of Six Universities of Tokyo and, after the Second World War, founding chairman of Nihon Gakusei Yakyū Kyōkai , the Japanese umbrella organization for high school and college competitions. He is therefore also known as the "father of student baseball " ( 学生 野球 の 父 , gakusei yakyū no chichi ) and in 1959 was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame .

literature

Web links

Commons : Isoo Abe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saburō Ienaga: The Pacific War, 1931-1945. 1978, p. 16.
  2. ↑ Saburō Ienaga: The Pacific War, 1931-1945. 1978, p. 110.
  3. ↑ 安 部 磯 雄あ べ い そ お . The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, accessed June 21, 2009 (Japanese).
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Abe is the family name, Isoo the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Abe, Isoo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 安 部 磯 雄 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician and intellectual
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Fukuoka , Fukuoka Fief , Chikuzen Province , Japan
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1949
Place of death Tokyo