Kinoshita Naoe

Kinoshita Naoe ( Japanese 木 下 尚 江 ; born September 8, 1869 in Matsumoto ; † November 5, 1937 ) was a Japanese writer.

After graduating from Tokyo College (now Waseda University ), Kinoshita worked as a journalist and lawyer in Nagano. He converted to Christianity and was jailed for supporting the women's rights movement. In 1899 he worked for the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper in Tokyo. He began to be interested in social issues, especially the situation of copper miners, and in 1901 he was one of the founders of the rapidly banned Shakai Minshutō ("Social Democratic Party") alongside Abe Isoo , Sen Katayama , Kawakami Kiyoshi , Kōtoku Shūsui and Nishikawa Kōjirō . From 1903 he worked for the socialist magazine Heimin Shimbun , which was co-founded by Kōtoku.

In 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War , he wrote the anti-war novel Hi no hashira , which was influenced by his Christian-socialist attitude and which was banned in 1910. In 1905 he ran unsuccessfully as a socialist candidate in the elections in Japan. After the Heimin Shimbun was banned in the same year , he became an employee of the Christian-socialist magazine Shin Kigen . He wrote other socialist and pacifist novels such as Ryōjin no jihaku ; in old age he turned to attempts to unite Christianity and Buddhism in the Seiza .

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• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 524 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• Janet Hunter, "Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History" , University of California Press, 1984, ISBN 978-0-520-04390-9 , p. 93
• John Scott Miller, "Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater," Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-5810-7 , p. 53

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Kinoshita is the family name, Naoe the first name.