title: Kazuaki Kimura
text: # Kazuaki Kimura
  
  Kazuaki Kimura (木村 一信, Kimura Kazuaki, 24 April 1946 – 26 September 2015) 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 <Minami Hiroyuki>", Sekai Shiso-sha Pub. Co. 2004
  * "Fuan ni ikiru bungakushi Ogai Mori kara Nakagami Kenji made", Sobunsha Pub. Co. 2008
  