Inoue Kiyoshi

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Inoue Kiyoshi ( Japanese 井上 清 ; born December 19, 1913 in Kōchi Prefecture ; † November 23, 2001 in Kyoto ) was a Japanese historian , social scientist and university professor who was Marxist- oriented, but also influenced by Max Weber's sociology of religion and European humanism , researched and described the phenomena of Japanese society throughout its history. Translations of his extensive work on the history of Japan have made him known in the western world ; in Germany it was published for the first time in 1993.

biography

The prefecture of Kōchi, in which Kiyoshi Inoue was born and probably also grew up, is located in the south of Japan on the island of Shikoku , the smallest of the four main islands of this island state.

Sometime in the first half of the 1930s Inoue began at the Imperial University of Tokyo (Tokyo Imperial University) with the study of history, which he in 1936 with the doctorate completed. During the Second World War he worked in the Ministry of Education .

After the war he was a member of the Historical Research Society and the Science Council of Japan in the political reorganization of his country. In 1954 he was appointed associate professor at the Institute of Humanities at the University of Kyoto ; in 1961 he was appointed full professor.

The first major work was published by Kiyoshi Inoue in 1948: The Story of Japanese Women , which was to be followed by several others over the years, such as a book on the Meiji Restoration soon after, or a work on theory a few years later and history of the Buraku liberation . Inoue was awarded the Mainichi Culture Prize in 1949 for the history of Japanese women . His History of Japan , which appeared from 1963 to 1966, is still widely read (especially in schools) in Japan.

The Chinese Cultural Revolution has been advocated by Kiyoshi Inoue, who was also a member of the Japanese Communist Party for a while. The Japanese student unrest in 1969 was also supported by him and publicly welcomed. As a sharp critic of Japanese militarism, he has campaigned all his life for an understanding with China and also for solidarity between all Asian states. For his humane attitude and the work produced from it, Kiyoshi Inoue was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Chinese Academy of Social Science at the end of his life in 1997 .

Literature (selection)

  • History of Japanese Women (1948)
  • Meiji Restoration (1951)
  • History of Japan (1963–1966)
  • The Formation of Japanese Militarism (1968)
  • Theory and History of the Buraku Liberation (1969)
  • Modern History of Japan (1969)
  • Saigō Takamori (1970)
  • Kazunari Ugaki (1975)
  • Kaiser, War, Responsibility (1975)
  • Buraku Discrimination and the Kaiser System (1989)

German editions

  • Kiyoshi Inoue: History of Japan , translated from Japanese and with a foreword by Manfred Hubricht, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2001, ISBN 3-88059-994-7

Secondary literature

  • Naoji Kimura : The "far west" Japan: Ten chapters on the myth and history of Japan , Röhrig Universitätsverlag GmbH, St. Ingbert 2003
  • Yvonne Rodenberg: Shogunate and military nobility in the Middle Ages , GRIN Verlag , Munich 2007
  • Gertraude Mikl-Horke : Historical sociology-socio-economic-economic sociology , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17367-2
  • Steve R. Entrich: The foundations of the modern Japanese education system: Joseph C. Trainor and the American educational reforms in Japan after the Second World War , Diplomica Verlag , Hamburg 2011
  • Max Weber: The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism , edited and introduced by Dirk Kaesler , Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60200-9

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Inoue is the family name, Kiyoshi the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Inoue, Kiyoshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 井上 清 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese historian, social scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Kochi Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 2001
Place of death Kyoto