Kiyoshi Miki

Miki Kiyoshi (Japanese三 木 清, born January 5, 1897 in the Hyōgo Prefecture, † September 26, 1945 ) was a Japanese philosopher.

Miki studied in Europe with Martin Heidegger, Heinrich Rickert and Karl Lowith. After his return to Japan in 1928, he taught Marxist philosophy at Hosei University, which he associated with ideas of existentialism. In 1930 he was arrested as a Marxist and lost his professorship. He then worked as a journalist. In 1945 he was again arrested and died in prison. He was a major philosopher of the period before the Second World War and made as a translator, editor and journalist known many works of European philosophy and literature in Japan.