Education
Kwansei Gakuin University.
Kwansei Gakuin University.
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. 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, 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.