Background
Yoshishige Kozai was born on May 17, 1901 in Tokyo, Japan. He was the second son of Yoshinao Kozai.
Yoshishige Kozai was born on May 17, 1901 in Tokyo, Japan. He was the second son of Yoshinao Kozai.
Yoshishige Kozai graduated from Tokyo University in 1925.
After graduating was for a while instructor at Meiji University and then at Tokyo Women's College. Later was appointed secretary of Materialism Research Society and took active part in the Communist movement in 1938, for which he was arrested together with Yukifusa Hattori. While in prison Yoshishige Kozai began compiling a dictionary on Catholicism.
After prison, Yoshishige worked at Sophia University in Catholic literature translation and at the religious association of Nobutaka Shiōden, where he spent wartime. After the end of World War II, returned to the education field as a materialist philosopher and professor at Tokyo College of Technology.
Kozai Yoshinao was a Japanese agricultural chemist during the Meiji era, Taisho era and early Showa era.
Shimizu Shikin, pen name of Shimizu Toyoko, was a Japanese novelist and women's rights activist of the Meiji period in Japan.
Toyoki Kozai was born in 1943. He is a Japanese biological environment scholar.
Together took active part in the Communist movement and were arrested.