Jun Tosaka
{{short description|Japanese philosopher}}
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{{infobox philosopher
| name = Jun Tosaka
| native_name = 戸坂 潤
| image = Jun Tosaka.JPG
| birth_date = {{birth date|1900|09|27|df=y}}
| birth_place = Tokyo, Japan
| death_date = {{death date and age|1945|08|09|1900|09|27|df=y}}
| death_place = Nagano, Japan
| era = 20th-century philosophy
| region = Japanese philosophy
| school_tradition = {{plainlist|
- Kyoto School
- {{cl|Japanese Marxists|Japanese Marxism}}
- Historical materialism
}}
| academic_advisors = Kitaro Nishida
| main_interests = Critique, social criticism, anti-imperialism
}}
{{Kyoto School}}
{{Nihongo|Jun Tosaka|戸坂 潤|Tosaka Jun|27 September 1900 – 9 August 1945|lead=yes}}{{cite web|title=Tosaka Jun|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%88%B8%E5%9D%82%E6%BD%A4-105056|website=Kotobanku|publisher=Asahi Shinbun|access-date=4 February 2015|language=ja}} was a Shōwa era Kyoto-trained Japanese philosopher, intellectual and teacher. Some identify strands of Marxism in his later philosophy. His criticisms of governments and their war policies caused him to end up in prison on various occasions.{{cite book|url=https://eap.einaudi.cornell.edu/publication/tosaka-jun-critical-reader| title=Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader |work=only a "sample chapter" is accessible here|editor1=Ken C. Kawashima|editor2= Fabian Schaefer|editor3=Robert Stolz|date=2013|publisher=Cornell University (East Asia Program), NY|isbn=978-1-933947-88-4|access-date=2 June 2019}}
Life
Jun Tosaka was born in Tokyo in 1900. Due to his mother's illness and his father's early death he was moved that same year with his nurse to live with his grandparents in Ishikawa Prefecture on the western side of the country. In September 1905 he returned to Tokyo where he grew up with his mother in the city's Kanda quarter (today part of Chiyoda).{{Cite web|title=戸坂潤年譜・著作一覧|url=https://bunkyoken.org/81nenpu_tyosakuitiran/tosakajun_nenputyosaku.html|access-date=2024-09-16|website=bunkyoken.org}}
He attended Kyoto Imperial University. He was interested in the works of Kitaro Nishida, and Hajime Tanabe, neo-Kantianism, and then Marxism. He was a member of the Kyoto School. In 1932, Tosaka participated in the creation of the "Society for the Study of Materialism" (Yuibutsuron Kenkyūkai, 唯物論研究会) and remained a leading representative of the society until its ban by the Japanese authorities in 1938. He was arrested in the same year under the Peace Preservation Law for his anti-war views. Tosaka died in Nagano Prison before the end of World War II.{{cite book|title=Sources of Japanese Tradition: Volume 2, 1600 to 2000|publisher=Columbia University Press|author=William Theodore De Bary|date=13 April 2005|pages=932}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book | title= Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader | publisher= Cornell University East Asia Program |author1=Ken C. Kawashima |author2=Fabian Schäfer |author3=Robert Stolz | year= 2013 }}
External links
- {{cite web|url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1996&dat=19451003&id=wpMiAAAAIBAJ&pg=1869,1022375&hl=en|title= MacArthur Ousts High Jap Official, Fires Police Heads|publisher= The Daily Times|date= 3 October 1945}}
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Category:Prisoners who died in Japanese detention