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Maruyama Masao (scholar)
Masao Maruyama is the name of: * Masao Maruyama (Japanese Army officer) (1889–1957), commander in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II * Masao Maruyama (scholar) (1914–1996), political theorist and historian * Masao Maruyama (film producer) (born 1941), producer for animation company Studio Madhouse {{hndis, Maruyama, Masao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masao Maruyama (Japanese Army Officer)
, was a Lieutenant General and commander in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Biography Maruyama was a native of Nagano Prefecture and a graduate of the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1911 and of the 31st class of the Army War College in 1919. He was a military attaché to the United Kingdom from 1923–1925, and to British India from 1929-1930. On his return to Japan, he was assigned to the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff, in charge of British and American military intelligence. He returned to England from 1934–1935, and was assigned to the Japanese embassy in London. After his promotion to colonel in 1935, Maruyama returned to the General Staff in Tokyo. From 1937-1938, he was commander of the 4th Regiment of the Imperial Guards. With the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, he was a field commander during the China Incident of July 1937. On 15 July 1938 he was promoted to major general, and assigned command of the IJA 6th Infantry B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masao Maruyama (scholar)
was a leading Japanese political scientist and political theorist. His expertise lay in the history of Japanese political thought, to which he made major contributions. Early life Maruyama Masao was born in Osaka in 1914. He was the second son of journalist Maruyama Kanji. He was influenced by friends of his father such as Hasegawa Nyozekan, a circle of people identified with the liberal current of political thought during the period of Taishō democracy. After graduating from Tokyo Furitsu Number One Middle School (currently known as Tokyo Municipal Hibiya High School), he entered the Tokyo Imperial University and graduated from the Department of Law in 1937. His thesis "The Concept of the Nation-state in Political Science" earned a Distinguished Thesis Award, and Maruyama was appointed assistant in the same department. Originally he had wanted to specialize in European political thought, but changed his focus to concentrate on Japanese political thought, a subject that until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |