Ph.D. at the Kyoto University (Japan). Magister and Bachelor from the same university. His research has been focused about Nietzsche, Heidegger, Schopenhauer, nihilism and the philosophy of religion.
Some of his most recent publications are:
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- Das neue Jahrhundert Schopenhauers (Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2022)
- Affirmation of Life: Overcoming Nihilism through Nietzsche (Tokyo, Hosei University Press, 2020)
- “Was bedeutet Nietzsches Kritik am Christentum in der postsäkularen Gesellschaft?” (In: Nietzsche und die Reformation, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 319-330)
- “Wer ist der „gute Europäer“? – Aus der Perspektive der japanischen Nietzsche-Forschungsgeschichte” (In: European/Supra-European: Cultural Encounters in Nietzsche’s Philosophy, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 349-360)
- “Think Rationally but Feel Spiritually A Nihilistic Dualism in Modern Japan” (In: Teoria. Rivista di filosofia, Vol. 40, N°1, 2020, pp. 137-146)
- “Nietzsche´s Critique of Schopenhauer's Morality of Compassion” (In: Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch, N°101, 2020, pp. 227-240)
- “On Nietzsche´s Critique of Sympathy = Sympathetic Suffering” (In: Ryukoku Journal of Philosophy, N°34, 2020, pp. 61-81)
- “Self-Transcendence without Transcendent -Transcendence and Ethics in Nietzsche” (In: Journal of Ethics, N°49, 2019)
- “Wer ist der gute Europäer? Aus der Perspektive der japanischen Nietzsche-Forschungsgeschichte“ (In: Brusotti, Marco; Mcneal, Michael; Schubert, Corinna and Siemens, Hermann. European / Supra-european: Cultural Encounters in Nietzsche’s Philosophy, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2019)
- “Is God really dead? Nietzsche on Religion and Science” (In: Schopenhauer Kenkyu / Schopenhauer Studies, 23/2018)
- “Leib und Welt bei Schopenhauer und Nietzsche” (In: Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch, pp. 197-209, 2016)
- “Nietzsche and Weber: Around the “Crisis of Sciences” (In: Katsuya Akitomi et al. Zoku Heidegger Tokuhon / Companion to Heidegger, Hosei-Daigaku- Shuppankyoku, pp. 117-124 , 2016)
- “Nietzsche on Nihilism and Body” (In: Shukyo-Tetsugaku Kenkyu / Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. Society for the Philosophy of Religion, pp.43-56, Vol. 33/2016 )
- “Nihilism and Genealogy” (In: Heidegger-Forum in Japan, vol. 6, pp. 1-13, 2012)
- “Is the World My Representation? Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, or, Representation and Interpretation” (In: Schopenhauer Kenkyu / Schopenhauer Studies, Japan Schopenhauer Association, pp. 35-59, Vol. 16/2011)
- “Rethinking the Metaphysics in The Birth of Tragedy” (In: Ryukoku Tetsugaku Ronshu / The Philosophical Review of Ryukoku University, the Ryukoku Philosophical Society, pp. 1-32, Vol. 25/2011)
- “Nietzsche’s Experimental Philosophy” (In: Risou / Ideals, pp. 61-74 Vol. 684/2010)
- “Apollo and Socrates: Toward a Rehabilitation of the Philosophy of History in The Birth of Tragedy” (In: Metaphysica, Osaka University, pp. 13-25 , Vol. 40/2009)
- “A Book for Everyone and No One: Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra” (In: Sakonji, Sachiko, Seiyou Tetsugaku no Jussatsu / Ten Books in the Western, Tokio, Iwanami-shoten, pp. 133-152, 2009)
- “Schopenhauer’s Concept of Life” (In: Dilthey Kenkyu / Dilthey Studies, Japan Dilthey Society, pp. 62-79, Vol. 19, 2008)
- “The Problem sphere of Nietzsche’s On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life” (In: JitsuzonShiso Ronshu / Annals of Existential Thought, The Japan Society of Existential Thought, XXIII, pp. 139-156, 2008)
- “The Free Spirit and the Free Will: Nietzsche’s Concept of Freedom in Human, All Too Human” (In: Rinrigaku Kenkyu / Annals of Ethical Studies, The Kansai Ethical Society, pp. 100-111, Vol. 38/2008,).
He is a committee member of different philosophical associations in Japan (Japanese Society for the Philosophy of Religion, Japan Schopenhauer-Association, Heidegger-Forum). Associate professor at Ryokoku University (Kyoto, Japan); 2015-2016 Guest Researcher at Forschungsstelle “Nietzsche-Kommentar”, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany).