Hajime Kawakami

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Hajime Kawakami
Kawakami Hajime
Born	October 20, 1879 Yamaguchi Prefecture
Died	January 30, 1946
Occupation	Writer, Economist
Nationality	Japanese
Subjects	Marxism

Hajime Kawakami (河上肇, Kawakami Hajime, October 20, 1879 – January 30, 1946) was a Japanese Marxist economist of the Taishō and early Shōwa periods.

Born in Yamaguchi, he graduated from Tokyo Imperial University. After writing for Yomiuri shimbun, he earned an economics professorship at Kyoto Imperial University. Increasingly inclined toward Marxism, he participated in the March 15 incident of 1928, and was expelled from the university as a subversive. The following year, he joined the formation of a political party Shinrōtō. Kawakami went on to publish a Marxist-oriented economics journal, Studies of Social Problems. After joining the then-outlawed Communist Party of Japan, he was arrested in 1933 and sent to prison. Following his release in 1937, he translated Das Kapital from German into Japanese. Kawakami spent the remainder of his life writing essays, novels, poetry, and the autobiography Jijoden. Jijoden was written secretly between 1943 and 1945 and serialized in 1946. It became a best-seller and was "extravagantly praised as being unprecedented in Japanese letters." (Embracing Defeat, John W. Dower, p 191)

External links

Takutoshi Inoue and Kiichiro Yagi, "Two Inquirers on the Divide: Tokuzo Fukuda and Hajime Kawakami" (Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University)

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Name	Kawakami, Hajime
Alternative names
Short description	Japanese economist, activist and writer
Date of birth	October 20, 1879
Place of birth	Yamaguchi Prefecture
Date of death	January 30, 1946
Place of death

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