Kazuaki Kimura

Kazuaki Kimura (木村 一信) was a professor and researcher of modern Japanese literature at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. Graduating from Kwansei Gakuin University in the field of Literature, Kimura became a professor at Ritsumeikan University, then served as Vice President at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University and then as President of Poole Gakuin University, Osaka. His main research was about Atsushi Nakajima, a writer at the beginning of the Shōwa period.

Biography

 * April 1946, Born in Fukuoka.
 * April 1979, Associate Professor, Kumamoto Joshi Daigaku
 * March 1984, Visiting Professor at Faculty of Letters, University of Indonesia
 * April 1991, Professor Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan University Kyoto
 * April 2000, Professor and Vice Rector of Student Affairs, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu
 * 2000, Doctor in Literature, Ritsumeikan University
 * April 2004, Professor at Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
 * April 2005, Dean, Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan University
 * May 2006, Director of Art Museum, Kyotofuritsu Domotoinsho Bijutsukan
 * March 2010, Professor Emeritus, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
 * April 2010, President of Poole Gakuin University, Osaka
 * August 2014, Professor Emeritus, Poole Gakuin University, Osaka
 * April 2015, President, College of Osaka Seikei

Books

 * "Aki yoru no dokushoki", Musashino Shobo Publishing Co., 1984
 * "Nakajima Atsushiron", Sobunsha Pub. Co. 1986
 * "Mo hitotsu no bungakushi` Senso 'e no manazashi", Zoshinkai Shuppansha Pub. Co. 1996
 * "Showa sakka no ", Sekai Shiso-sha Pub. Co. 2004
 * "Fuan ni ikiru bungakushi Ogai Mori kara Nakagami Kenji made", Sobunsha Pub. Co. 2008