Ken’ichi Maegawa

Present Position

Research Fellow, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy

Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Soka University

Field of Research

History of Japanese Buddhist Doctrines

Academic Societies

Japanese Association for Religious Studies

Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies

The Japanese Society for Ethics

Japan Association for Bioethics

Association of Japanese Intellectual History

Education

The University of Tokyo, D.Litt. (2002)

Main Publications

• Myōe no Shisōshi-teki Kenkyū: Shisō-kōzō to Sho-jissen no Tenkai [A Study on Myōe’s Thought in Historical Perspective: Structure of his Thought and Development of his Practices] (Kyoto: Hōzōkan, February 2012).
• Myōe Shōnin Yume-no-ki Yakuchū [Annotated Translation of Myōe’s Dream Diary], ed. Isao Okuda, Tae Hirano, and Ken’ichi Maegawa (Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, February 2015)
• “A Defense of Selective Abortion” in The Future of Life and Death: Contemporary Bioethics in Europe and Japan (Tokyo: The University of Tokyo, March 2007), 107-110.
• “Japanese Pure Land Buddhism: Some Minor Movements in the Pure Land Tradition,” in Northern Buddhism in History ed. Shanker Thapa (Kathmandu: Vajra Publication, July 2008), 137-149.
• Modern Nichirenist Discourses on Life and Jōsei Toda's Buddhist Thought in the Journal of Oriental Philosophy 20 (2010).
• Inter-religious Dialogue in Shūron, a Kyōgen Play in the Journal of Oriental Philosophy 17 (2007).