Nakamura Shingo

Nakamura Shingo (中村進午, なかむら しんご; August 17, 1870 - October 31, 1939) was a Japanese lawyer, academic, and publisher active in Japan. Nakamura was born in Takada, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. He studied law at the Tokyo Imperial University. He traveled widely, studying international law and policy in Germany, England, and France before returning to Japan to take a professor of law position at the Tokyo Gakushuin (學習院). He was a member of the nationalist anti-Russian Tomizu Group and publicly advocated for a no-tolerance policy toward Russia - a controversial position that led him to lose his Gakushuin professorship. and later at Hôsei (法政大學) University. In 1906 (Meiji 39), after the Russo-Japanese War (1904 - 1905), he became a professor at Tokyo Higher School of Commerce (Hitotsubashi University), where he remained, later as a Professor Emeritus, until 1938, the year before his death.