Kazuaki Kimura
Born	(1946-04-24)24 April 1946 Fukuoka, Japan
Died	26 September 2015(2015-09-26) (aged 69) Osaka, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	Kwansei Gakuin University
Scientific career
Fields	Modern Japanese Literature

Kazuaki Kimura (木村 一信, Kimura Kazuaki, 24 April 1946 – 26 September 2015^[1]) was a professor and researcher of modern Japanese literature at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. Graduating from Kwansei Gakuin University in the field of Literature, Kimura became a professor at Ritsumeikan University, then served as Vice President at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University and then as President of Poole Gakuin University, Osaka. His main research was about Atsushi Nakajima, a writer at the beginning of the Shōwa period.

• April 1946, Born in Fukuoka.
• April 1979, Associate Professor, Kumamoto Joshi Daigaku
• March 1984, Visiting Professor at Faculty of Letters, University of Indonesia
• April 1991, Professor Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan University Kyoto
• April 2000, Professor and Vice Rector of Student Affairs, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu
• 2000, Doctor in Literature, Ritsumeikan University
• April 2004, Professor at Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
• April 2005, Dean, Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan University
• May 2006, Director of Art Museum, Kyotofuritsu Domotoinsho Bijutsukan
• March 2010, Professor Emeritus, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
• April 2010, President of Poole Gakuin University, Osaka ^[2]
• August 2014, Professor Emeritus, Poole Gakuin University, Osaka
• April 2015, President, College of Osaka Seikei

• "Aki yoru no dokushoki", Musashino Shobo Publishing Co., 1984
• "Nakajima Atsushiron", Sobunsha Pub. Co. 1986
• "Mo hitotsu no bungakushi` Senso 'e no manazashi", Zoshinkai Shuppansha Pub. Co. 1996
• "Showa sakka no <Minami Hiroyuki>", Sekai Shiso-sha Pub. Co. 2004
• "Fuan ni ikiru bungakushi Ogai Mori kara Nakagami Kenji made", Sobunsha Pub. Co. 2008