Uesugi Shinkichi
Uesugi Shinkichi | |
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| 上杉 慎吉 | |
Uesugi Shinkichi in 1910 | |
| Born | August 18, 1878 |
| Died | April 7, 1929 (aged 50) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Professor of Constitutional Law |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Eastern philosophy |
| School | Japanese nationalism |
| Language | Japanese |
| Main interests | Political philosophy |
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Uesugi Shinkichi (上杉 慎吉, Uesugi Shinkichi; August 18, 1878 – April 7, 1929) was a political philosopher and legal scholar who was active in Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa period Japan. One of the founding figures of right-wing Shintō ultranationalism, he helped sow the seeds for radical right-wing activism in 1930s Japan, although he died shortly before a wave of assassinations and assassination attempts that his ideas helped inspire.