Kazuaki Kimura

Kazuaki Kimura (木村一信, Kimura Kazuaki, 24 April 1946 – 26 September 2015^[1]) was a professor and researcher of modern Japanese literature at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. Graduating from Kwansei Gakuin University in the field of Literature, Kimura became a professor at Ritsumeikan University, then served as Vice President at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University and then as President of Poole Gakuin University, Osaka. His main research was about Atsushi Nakajima, a writer at the beginning of the Shōwa period.

Biography

April 1946, Born in Fukuoka.
April 1979, Associate Professor, Kumamoto Joshi Daigaku
March 1984, Visiting Professor at Faculty of Letters, University of Indonesia
April 1991, Professor Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan University Kyoto
April 2000, Professor and Vice Rector of Student Affairs, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu
2000, Doctor in Literature, Ritsumeikan University
April 2004, Professor at Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
April 2005, Dean, Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan University
May 2006, Director of Art Museum, Kyotofuritsu Domotoinsho Bijutsukan
March 2010, Professor Emeritus, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
April 2010, President of Poole Gakuin University, Osaka ^[2]
August 2014, Professor Emeritus, Poole Gakuin University, Osaka
April 2015, President, College of Osaka Seikei

"Aki yoru no dokushoki", Musashino Shobo Publishing Co., 1984
"Nakajima Atsushiron", Sobunsha Pub. Co. 1986
"Mo hitotsu no bungakushi` Senso 'e no manazashi", Zoshinkai Shuppansha Pub. Co. 1996
"Showa sakka no <Minami Hiroyuki>", Sekai Shiso-sha Pub. Co. 2004
"Fuan ni ikiru bungakushi Ogai Mori kara Nakagami Kenji made", Sobunsha Pub. Co. 2008