Yoshihiko Amino
Yoshihiko Amino was born on January 22, 1928. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Yoshihiko Amino
Yoshihiko Amino (Japanese: 網野 善彦, Hepburn: Amino Yoshihiko; January 22, 1928 – February 27, 2004) was a Japanese Marxist historian and public intellectual, perhaps most singularly known for his novel examination of medieval Japanese history. Although little of Amino's work has been published in the West, Japanese writers and historians of Japan regard Amino as one of the most important Japanese historians of the twentieth century. Some of Amino's findings are now available in English, in a very lively and personal account of how he came to reverse many conventional ideas about Japanese…