Masakazu Nakai

Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Nakai studied philosophy at Kyoto University, particularly aesthetics under Yasukazu Fukuda.

[2] He became a lecturer at Kyoto University while being active in left-wing social movements, protesting Japan's tilt towards fascism and promoting popular forms of culture through such concepts at the "logic of the committee.

However, the magazine was discontinued in 1937 with his arrest for anti-fascist political activity under the Peace Preservation Law.

[2] After World War II, he continued his political activism by teaching philosophy as part of the Hiroshima Culture Movement and by running for governor of Hiroshima Prefecture, only losing by a narrow margin.

[3] He was appointed the first Vice Librarian (fukukanchō) of the National Diet Library in 1948.