Kanae Sakuma

Born: September 7th, 1888 in Togane town, Sanbu country, Chiba prefecture
Died: January 9th, 1970

Education

Doctor of Literature (1923) Tokyo Imperial University—His academic dissertation was “Kokugo no onseiteki kenkyu (Research of Japanese sound)”
Graduate school at Tokyo Imeprial University to research Japanese sounds for five years (~1918)
B.A (1913) Department of Philosphy, College of Letters, Tokyo Imperial University (Major Psychology)—His academic dissertation was “Doritsuron”

1918 Instructor at Nihon University
1920-1923 Preparatory professor at Nihon University
1923 Went to Germany and France as a researcher for Ministry of Education to study psychological research at Berlin University (Now Humboldt University)
1925 Announced collaborative research with Kurt Lewin
1925 Came back to Japan and took charge of psychology class at Department of Law and Letters, Kyushu Imperial University
1942-1943 Director at Kyushu Imperial University
1949 Retired Kyushu University
1952 Professor at Toyo University
1960-1963 President at Toyo University
1961 Guest professor at International Christian University
1963 Director at Asian and African Culture Research Institute (Now Asian Culture Research Institute), Toyo University
1968 Professor at Graduate school, Komazawa University

Kanae Sakuma contributed to linguistic psychology and to introduce Gestalt psychology.
His biggest contributions were in the areas of Japanese phonetics and language comprehension.
He was engaged in the first experimental research of Japanese phonetic characteristics in Japan.
He founded psychological laboratory at Kyushu Imperial University and the Kyushu Psychological Association.

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