Sadayoshi Tanabe

Who was Sadayoshi Tanabe?

Sadayoshi Tanabe was an academic and bibliographer born in Tari, Nichinan, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Tanabe started his career as a municipal worker for the city of Kure in Hiroshima Prefecture. He later worked at the Tokyo Institute of Municipal Research, for which he later became secretary. Tanabe helped establish an exchange program with the University of Michigan, the Center for Japanese Studies, founded in Okayama Prefecture in 1950. Tanabe, after a long career in municipal government, recorded an extensive oral history with interviewer Suruki Akagi in 1971. Tanabe related his experiences in the local governance of Japan, which spanned much of the Shōwa period.