was a Japanese

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

, founder of an influential

historiographic Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians hav ...

school in

postwar Japan Post-occupation Japan is the period in postwar Japanese history which started when the Allied occupation of Japan ended in 1952 and lasted to the end of the Showa era in 1989. Despite the massive devastation it suffered in the Second World War, ...

known as the .

References

*Isao Hirota, « Grandes tendances de l'historiographie japonaise depuis Meiji », Histoire, économie et société, vol. 25, no 2, 2006, p. 165-179 (in French
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1907 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Japanese historians {{Japan-historian-stub