Uesugi Shinkichi

Uesugi Shinkichi
上杉 慎吉
Uesugi Shinkichi in 1910
Born(1878-08-18)August 18, 1878
DiedApril 7, 1929(1929-04-07) (aged 50)
NationalityJapanese
OccupationProfessor of Constitutional Law
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionEastern philosophy
SchoolJapanese nationalism
LanguageJapanese
Main interests
Political philosophy

Uesugi Shinkichi (上杉 慎吉, Uesugi Shinkichi, August 18, 1878 – April 7, 1929) was a political philosopher and legal scholar who was active in Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa period Japan. One of the founding figures of right-wing Shintō ultranationalism, he helped sow the seeds for radical right-wing activism in 1930s Japan, although he died shortly before a wave of assassinations and assassination attempts that his ideas helped inspire.[1]

  1. ^ Skya 2009, pp. 162–163.