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Kiyoshi Inoue (井上 清, Inoue Kiyoshi, December 19, 1913 - November 23, 2001) was a Japanese academic, historian, author and professor emeritus of the Kyoto University. He was considered a specialist in modern Japanese history.[1] He was also known as a "progressive historian"[2] and a "Marxist historian."[3]
Early life
Inoue was born in Kochi Prefecture.[4] He studied at the University of Tokyo; and his doctoral thesis was "The History of Modern Reform."[5] He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1936.[4]
Career
In 1954, Inoue joined the faculty of the University of Kyoto as an associate professor at the Institute of Humanities.[5] In 1961, he was named a professor. He continued as a member of the Kyoto faculty until his retirement in 1977.[4]
In his later years, Inoue worked to expand the number of academic exchanges between Japan and China,[6] and led a movement seeking solidarity with Asian nations.[4] He also published works on the subject of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute that sided with the Chinese claim.
Inoue had published a book criticizing the imperial system; and he continued to be critical of the Japanese emperor throughout his life.[4] In a range of topics, his work was often viewed as controversial[7] due to his active protests and lawsuits against the Japanese government.[8] During the Japanese students riots in 1969, Professor Inoue openly supported the students who were demanding the scrapping of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty.[4]
Inoue was also very critical of "Japanese militarism" in the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute with China,[9] and had written a number of books on the subject.
Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Kiyoshi Inoue, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 100+ works in 200+ publications in 6 languages and 1,000+ library holdings.[10]