Education
University of Tokyo.
石母田 正
historian journalist model Marxist scholar
University of Tokyo.
In the 1950s, after the success of the communist revolution in China in 1949, he espoused that model as the Asian alternative to Westernization, which had failed in Japan. Born in his mother"s family house in Hokkaidō, Ishimoda was raised in what is now Ishinomaki city, Miyagi Prefecture, where his father was mayor. He enrolled in the faculty of philosophy at Tokyo Imperial University, but switched to Japanese history.
On graduation he became a journalist for the Asahi Shinbun, then professor at Hosei University.
In 1973 he was diagnosed as suffering from Parkinson"s disease.
As an orthodox materialist, he was a lifetime member of the Communist Party, and influential Marxist scholar in the analyses on Japanese history conducted by members of the post-war Rekiken group.