Asataro Narazaki

Born: November 8th, 1881 in Tanshiro village, Mitsu county, Okayama prefecture
Died: March 11th, 1974

Education

Doctor of Literature (1923) Kyoto Imperial University—His academic dissertation was “Seishinteki dousa no hattatsu (Development of Psychic Behavior)”
Graduated Department of Philosophy, College of Letters, Kyoto Imperial University (1910)—His academic dissertation was “Shinshin no hattatsu (Development of Mind and Body)”

1917 Assistant at College of Letters, Kyoto Imperial University
1920 Professor at Tokyo higher normal school
1929 Professor at Tokyo Bunrika University (Tokyo Letters and Science University) during studying in Germany
1944 Retired Tokyo Bunrika University (Tokyo Letters and Science University)
1944 Banished from public service, several times he was invited as Educational special instructor by China
1952 Professor at Kinki University
Principal of elementary and junior high school attached Kinki University
1969 Counselor at Kinki University
1971 Inspector at Kinki University

He studied experiment demonstration of educational psychology at Tokyo Bunrika University for thirty years. In his works, he suggested the need for painstaking education.
Then his interests came to be Japanese spirit and love of Japan. He suggested the educational promotion of Japanese nationalism.

Hiroshi Oizumi (2003). Nihonshinrigakusha-jiten. Tokyo: Kabushiki Kaisha Kress Shuppan.
Nihon no shinrigaku kanko iinkai. (1982).Nihon no shinrigaku. Tokyo: Nihon bunka kagaku sha.