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Sakuzō Yoshino (吉野 作造, Yoshino Sakuzō, January 29, 1878 – March 18, 1933) was a Japanese academic, historian, author and professor of political science. [1] Yoshino was active as a political thinker in the Taishō period.
Yoshino Sakuzō (born Jan. 29, 1878, Furukawa, Miyagi prefecture, Japan—died March 18, 1933, Zushi, Kanagawa prefecture) was a Japanese Christian politician and educator who was a leader in the movement to further democracy in Japan in the early part of the 20th century.
Political scientist. Born in Miyagi in 1878. In 1904, he graduated from the Faculty of Political Science of the Imperial University of Tokyo. He became an associate professor of the Tokyo Imperial University in 1909 and was promoted to professor in 1914.
One of the dominant figures of this tradition was Dr. Yoshino Sakuzo. The appearance of his essay, "A discussion of the means of perfecting constitutional government," in the January 1916 issue of Chuo Koron [Central Review] imme- diately established him as a major in- fluence in modern Japanese political thought.
Jan 18, 2014 · An Imperial Path to Modernity: Yoshino Sakuzō and a New Liberal Order in East Asia, 1905–1937. The spirit of every historical period is personified by certain individuals and Yoshino Sakuzō is unquestionably such a person. Appraisals of Yoshino’s work are entwined with the problem of evaluating democracy in the prewar period, a problem ...
Yoshino Sakuz? in Taisho Japan. Abstract: This essay re-examines the ideas and activities of Yoshino Sakuz?, who provided theoretical underpinning for Taisho Democracy. It explores.
An Imperial Path to Modernity examines the role of liberal intellectuals in reshaping transnational ideas and internationalist aspirations into national values and imperial ambitions in early twentieth-century Japan.
