Education
He was awarded a degree in German literature and a Doctor of Philosophy in literature from the University of Tokyo.
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Kanji Nishio
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Career
He translated the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer into Japanese. He has written over seventy published works and over thirty translations. Nishio, regarded as a rightist intellectual, was the head of Atarashii Rekishi Kyokasho wo Tsukuru Kai (Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform), founded in January 1997 by right-wing scholars and cartoonists to devise a new Japanese history text book as they considered existing ones to be "self-torturing".
Nishio has a wide following in Japan.
Nishio claimed "This is not necessarily an economic problem. Frankly speaking, it is a problem of ‘cultural defense’".
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Japan