Nitobe InazÅ
Nitobe Inazō (Japanese新 渡 戸 稲 造; born September 1, 1862 in Morioka, Japan, † October 15, 1933 in Victoria, Canada ) was a Japanese agricultural economist, philosopher, educator, author and international political activist.
Life
Nitobe comes from a samurai clan. One of his grandfathers was a military strategist and practiced well in martial arts such as Nitobe's father, who taught the techniques of kenjutsu, jiujitsu and sojutsu also his son.
1886 converted to Quakerism and joined the Baltimore Yearly Meeting in because the Japan Yearly Meeting until 1936 founded.
Nitobe first studied in 1877 at the Sapporo Agricultural College (now Hokkaido University ), then in 1883 at the University of Tokyo before he finally went to the USA for the Johns Hopkins University. He was then of the School of Agriculture Sapporo obliged to study in Germany Agriculture in Bonn, Berlin and Halle, so that he upon his return was given a professorship in Sapporo. Then offices followed as a technical officer in the General Taiwan, as a professor at the Imperial University of Kyoto, rector of the First High School, a professor at the ( Imperial ) University of Tokyo, 1918, founder and rector of the college for women Tokyo, and finally in 1920 Deputy Secretary-General of the League of Nations. In this capacity he took in 1921 at the World Congress of Esperanto as an observer and submitted to the League of Nations Assembly a report on the state of use of Esperanto in the world before. In the thirties, he tried to mediate to resolve the tense relationship between the U.S. and Japan.
After he fell ill at the age of 37, he wrote his famous work " Bushido: The Soul of Japan" in California English. The German translation was first published in 1903. Nitobe In this work, the principles of Japanese morality dar. He describes, among other things, seven principles by which the Japanese, and especially the samurai tries to act or to try. It has been abused in the 2nd World War by Japanese nationalists for their own purposes.
Nitobe is mapped to the 5000 yen notes, which were printed from 1984 to 2004. Named after him, the Nitobe Memorial Garden is located in Vancouver.
Works
- About the Japanese land, its distribution, and agricultural use. -. Halle ad S., 1890 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf