Background
Ikutaro Shimizu was born in 1907 in Tokyo, Japan.
Ikutaro Shimizu was born in 1907 in Tokyo, Japan.
He graduated from Literature Department, Tokyo University, where he studied sociology.
Ikutaro Shimizu was a professor at Gakushiiin University. Director of the Twentieth Century Research Institute. After having been professor at Jochi (Sophia) University and an editorial writer of the Yomiuri Shimbun (newspaper), he became head of the Twentieth Century Research Institute after the war.