Kiyoshi Inoue

was a Japanese academic, historian, author and professor emeritus of the Kyoto University. He was considered a specialist in modern Japanese history. He was also known as a "progressive historian" and a "Marxist historian."

Early life Inoue was born in Kochi Prefecture. He studied at the University of Tokyo; and his doctoral thesis was "The History of Modern Reform." He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1936. and led a movement seeking solidarity with Asian nations. due to his active protests and lawsuits against the Japanese government. During the Japanese students riots in 1969, Professor Inoue openly supported the students who were demanding the scrapping of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. and had written a number of books on the subject.

Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Kiyoshi Inoue, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 100+ works in 200+ publications in 6 languages and 1,000+ library holdings.

Books 日本女性史 (1948) 明治維新 (1951) 天皇制 (1953) 新版日本の軍国主義 (1953) 条約改正: 明治の民族問題 (1955) 日本近代史 (1956) 日本の歴史 (1963) 日本帝国主義の形成 (1968) 天皇の戦争責任 (1975) 釣魚列島的歷史和主權問題 Diaoyu Dao - Li Shi Yu Zhu Quan (1972) Senkaku Letto/Diaoyu Islands - The Historical Treaties (1972)

Journals Japanese Militarism & Diaoyutai (Senkaku) Island - A Japanese Historian's View. Historical Research, February 1972.