Uesugi Shinkichi

Uesugi Shinkichi
上杉 慎吉
Uesugi Shinkichi in 1910
Born	(1878-08-18)August 18, 1878 Fukui town, Asuwa District, Fukui Prefecture, Empire of Japan
Died	April 7, 1929(1929-04-07) (aged 50) Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Empire of Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Professor of Constitutional Law
Era	20th-century philosophy Meiji Era Taishō Era Shōwa Era
Region	Eastern philosophy Japanese philosophy
School	Japanese nationalism
Language	Japanese
Main interests	Political philosophy

Uesugi Shinkichi (上杉 慎吉, Uesugi Shinkichi, August 18, 1878 – April 7, 1929) was a political philosopher and legal scholar who was active in Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa period Japan. One of the founding figures of right-wing Shintō ultranationalism, he helped sow the seeds for radical right-wing activism in 1930s Japan, although he died shortly before a wave of assassinations and assassination attempts that his ideas helped inspire.^[1]