Takaaki Yoshimoto

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Takaaki Yoshimoto
吉本隆明
Yoshimoto in 1960
Born	(1924-11-25)November 25, 1924 Tsukishima, Tokyo
Died	March 16, 2012(2012-03-16) (aged 87) Bunkyō, Tokyo
Nationality	Japanese
Other names	Ryūmei Yoshimoto
Alma mater	Tokyo Institute of Technology
Occupation(s)	Poet, philosopher, literary critic
Years active	1952–2012

Takaaki Yoshimoto (吉本 隆明, Yoshimoto Takaaki, 25 November 1924 – 16 March 2012), also known as Ryūmei Yoshimoto, was a Japanese poet, philosopher, and literary critic. As a philosopher, he is remembered as a founding figure in the emergence of the New Left in Japan, and as a critic, he was at the forefront of a movement to force writers to confront their responsibility as wartime collaborators.

Yoshimoto is the father of Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto and of cartoonist Yoiko Haruno.^[1]