Masahiro Yasuoka

Japanese: 安岡正篤 - やすおかまさひろ

Born: February 13, 1898 in Osaka
[Died] December 13, 1983. Tokyo Yangming scholar and thinker. He was familiar with Chinese classics from an early age. While studying at the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, he advocated Japanese nationalism in opposition to the Taisho democracy, and his name became known to politicians, government officials, and the military at an early stage. In 1927, he established a private school, Kinkei Gakuin, and worked to spread Eastern thought, and in 1931, with the sponsorship of business leaders, he founded the Japanese Farmer's School. During World War II, he served as an advisor to the Ministry of Greater East Asia in the Koiso Cabinet, and was one of the drafters of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. In 1949, he established the National Association of Teachers and Friends, and devoted himself to educating leaders. Many politicians, business leaders, and cultural figures looked up to Yasuoka as his mentor, and it was even said that listening to Yasuoka's lectures was a condition for becoming a leader. He provided advice as a mentor to successive prime ministers, all of whom were former bureaucrats, such as Shigeru Yoshida, Eisaku Sato, and Hayato Ikeda, but he never took a political role himself. He has written numerous books on Yangmingism, Eastern thought, and philosophy of life.

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Japanese:

[生]1898.2.13. 大阪
[没]1983.12.13. 東京
陽明学者，思想家。幼少から漢籍に親しむ。東京大学法学部在学中に大正デモクラシーに抗して日本主義を唱え，早くから政・官・軍関係者にその名を知られる。 1927年私塾・金鶏学院を設立して東洋思想の普及に努め，31年財界首脳をスポンサーに日本農士学校を創設する。第2次世界大戦中は小磯内閣の大東亜省顧問をつとめたが，終戦の詔勅の起草者の1人でもあった。 49年全国師友協会を設立，指導者の教化に力を注ぐ。多くの政・財界人，文化人が師と仰ぎ，安岡の訓話を受けることが指導者の条件とまでいわれた。吉田茂，佐藤栄作，池田勇人ら官僚出身の歴代首相の求めに応じて指南役として助言したが，みずからは生涯政治の表舞台に立つことはなかった。陽明学，東洋思想，人生論に関する多数の著書がある。

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