Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
Value-Creating Education

Rather than provide knowledge itself, we must encourage the joy and excitement that arise from learning.

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Academic Papers

Makiguchi Project in Action--Enhancing Education for Peace
by Dilma De Melo Silva (Professor of Brazilian Culture Studies at São Paulo University)
Originally published in Ideas and influence of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi: Special issue of the Journal of Oriental Studies, 10. pp. 62-93. Tokyo: The Institute of Oriental Philosophy, 2000.

Value Creating Pedagogy and Japanese Education in the Modern Era
by Kazunori Kumagai (Professor of educational sociology at Soka University)
Originally published in Ideas and influence of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi: Special issue of the Journal of Oriental Studies, 10. pp. 29-45. Tokyo: The Institute of Oriental Philosophy, 2000.

Tsunesaburo Makiguchi's Theory of the State
by Koichi Miyata (Professor of philosophy at Soka University)
Originally published in Ideas and influence of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi: Special issue of the Journal of Oriental Studies, 10. pp. 10-28. Tokyo: The Institute of Oriental Philosophy, 2000.

A Portrait of the Educator Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
by Shoji Saito (Professor emeritus at Soka University)
Excerpt from Saito, Shoji. Nihonteki Shizenkan no Kenkyu IV [Research on Japanese Views on Nature.] pp. 358-373. Tokyo: Yasaka Shobo. 2006.

Nichiren Thought in Modern Japan
by Hiroo Sato (Associate Professor of history of Japanese thought at Tohoku University)
Originally published in Ideas and influence of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi: Special issue of the Journal of Oriental Studies, 10. pp. 46-61. Tokyo: The Institute of Oriental Philosophy, 2000.

The Significance of Makiguchi Tsunesaburo's Jinsei chirigaku in the Intellectual History of Geography in Japan
by Keiichi Takeuchi (Professor emeritus at Hitotsubashi University)
Originally published in The Journal of Oriental Studies, 14. pp. 112-132. Tokyo: The Institute of Oriental Philosophy, 2000.


Letters from Prison

October 23, 1943

December 17, 1943

October 13, 1944


Selected Translations

The Geography of Human Life

The System of Value-Creating Pedagogy

The Outline of the System of Value-Creating Pedagogy

Interrogation Report

Others


Books on Makiguchi

Old Textbooks
The following are examples of how Japan's militarist and imperialist policies were expressed in state-sanctioned elementary school textbooks during the pre-1945 period.

Early 1900s – During the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars

Colonial Era

Before World War II