Yoshihide Kubo

Born: April 22nd, 1883 in Kuma village (now Shioda village), Fujitsuna county, Saga prefecture
Died: November 12th, 1942

Education

Doctor of Literature (1923) Tokyo Imperial University—His academic dissertation was “Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading”
Ph.D. (1915) Clark University—His academic dissertation was “Some Aspects of Recent Child Study”
Graduated Department of Philosophy, College of Letters, Tokyo Imperial University (Major Psychology) (1909)—His academic dissertation was “Funnu oyobi fukushu no kenkyu (Research of Anger and Revenge)”

1909 Assistant for Associate Professor Tomokichi Fukurai at Tokyo Imperial University
1911 School inspector at Education Division of Tokyo City
1913 Visited the United States to inspect the education of the United States as part time employee after he retired the school inspector
1913 Entered Clark University at Massachusetts State in the United States
1915 Instructor at Clark University
1916 Came back to Japan after he had resigned as an instructor at Clark University and inspected education and other universities in British, France, Russia, Sweden or Suisee
1917 Part time employee as instructor at Tokyo Imperial University
1917 Manager at the desk of intelligence at Child educational institute
1922 Professor at Hiroshima higher normal school
1929 Professor at Hiroshima Bunrika University (Hiroshima Literature and Science University)

Yoshihide Kubo contributed to educational psychology and child education. His idea of child education, respect for the natural development of children, influenced the school education.
He is the first man who standardized the Binet Intelligent Scale in Japan.
He founded the psychological laboratory at Hiroshima Bunrika University.
He made Kubo library, the collection of psychological books were published from Meiji era (1868~1912) to the primary of Showa era (1926~1989) at Hiroshima University.

Hiroshi Oizumi (2003). Nihonshinrigakusha-jiten. Tokyo: Kabushiki Kaisha Kress Shuppan.
Tatsuya Sato, Hazime Mizoguchi, (1997). Tsushi Nihon-no-shinrigaku. Kyoto: Kitaoji Shobo.