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.

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