Shunsuke Tsurumi
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is a Japan
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ese historian and philosopher. Graduating from Harvard University
Harvard University
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 in 1942, he taught at Kyoto University
Kyoto University
, or is a national university located in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest Japanese university, and formerly one of Japan's Imperial Universities.- History :...

. In 1946, he started the magazine "Shiso-no Kagaku" (Science of Thought). He was a member of the anti-Vietnam War group Beheiren
Beheiren
Beheiren was a Japanese activist group that existed from 1965 to 1974. As a coalition of a few hundred anti-war groups it protested Japanese assistance to the United States during the Vietnam War.-Accomplishments:They claim to have helped 20 U.S...

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He was one of the first students of Willard Quine.
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