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Masaki Nakamasa

Masaki Nakamasa

Masaki Nakamasa (born February 22, 1963) is a Japanese philosopher and intellectual historian. He is a professor at the Faculty of Law, Institute of Human and Social Sciences of Kanazawa University. His specialties are History of Thought, Fundamental Law, and General Literature. Born in Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture, he entered the University of Tokyo’s College of Arts and Sciences in 1981. He joined the Unification Church around that time and was active in the CARP (Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles) Movement at the University of Tokyo. He left the Unification Church in 1992 and studied abroad in Germany. He became an associate professor at Kanazawa University’s Faculty of Law in 1998 and a professor at the same university in 2008.