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Takashi Muramatsu

むらまつ たかし

Muramatsu Takashi

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1917-05-22 (Shizuoka Prefecture)
Died
1982-11-15 age 65
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
novelist, journalist, education critic
Active Years
1940-1982
Affiliations
Tokyo Nichinichi Newspaper, Mainichi Shimbun, Tokai University Institute of Civilization, Ashiya University
Nominations
Naoki Prize nominee (for Ikyo no Onna), Naoki Prize nominee (for ONLY YOU)

Education

Shizuoka Prefectural Shizuoka High School
Country: Japan
Waseda University
Faculty of Letters, Department of English / Department of English
Country: Japan

Awards

Kikuchi Kan Prize
1968
Work: Education no Mori series
Result: winner
Mainichi Publishing Culture Award
1968
Work: Education no Mori series
Organization: Mainichi Newspapers
Result: winner
Japan Journalists Conference Award
1968
Work: Education no Mori series
Organization: Japan Journalists Conference
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Woman from a Foreign Land

1956 Novel

ONLY YOU: Sampaguita is a Flower of the Night

1957 Novel

Education no Mori series

1965 Education criticism

Shogi Sengokushi

1981 Reportage

Bibliography

  • Manila at Sunset
  • Woman from a Foreign Land
  • ONLY YOU: Sampaguita is a Flower of the Night
  • Spotlight
  • The Camellia Woman
  • The New Shachi: Records of the Japanese
  • Education no Mori Volumes 1-12
  • Kosyuki
  • Education no Mori: The Aftermath
  • The Origin of Education
  • I Will Teach You Good Schools: Educational Q&A for Parents Who Want Their Children to Enter Good Schools
  • Challenge to the Metropolis: A Japanese Chronicle
  • Why Only Female Teachers
  • Parents Ruin Schools
  • New Educational Circumstances
  • New Education no Mori
  • Shogi Sengokushi

Translations by Author

  • The Young Rebel Generation

Legacy

He was highly regarded for his work as an education critic and influenced postwar educational discourse.