is a Japanese educationist. He was a professor of Waseda University, and the provost of

Tokyo Higher Normal School is a public research university located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. It is a top 10 Designated National University, and was ranked Type A by the Japanese government as part of the Top Global University Project. The university has 28 colle ...

(today's University of Tsukuba). With educationists including Takashima (高島平三郎), he jointly founded the ''Children Research'' magazine in 1898, and in 1902 founded Children Research Society in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. In 1906, he was invited by Liangjiang Higher Normal School (today's Nanjing University) president Li Ruiqing and then came to

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

to be the school provost.

References

Presidents of universities and colleges in Japan Academic staff of Waseda University Academic staff of Nanjing University 1870 births 1932 deaths {{japan-academic-bio-stub