Shuji Imamoto
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Shuji Imamoto (今本 秀爾, Imamoto Shūji) is a Japanese ecological "green" activist and journalist. He has represented the green political movement in Japan since his attendance in Global Greens Conference in Canberra in 2001.[citation needed] As a researcher, his major field is modern European political and social philosophy such as Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School (Habermas, Erich Fromm), Critical Rationalism (Karl Popper), political pluralism (Hannah Arendt), political liberalism and existentialism (Jaspers, Sartre).
He majored in German Studies. Then he got doctor's degrees of European philosophy and continued to study at the graduate course of Tokyo University (social and interdisciplinary studies).
After graduation, he published papers and reports on socio-philosophical issues, for example "On metaphysical liberalism", then presented at various international conferences and lectured at many universities in Europe and USA.[citation needed]
In 1998, he founded a group “Political Forum on the Internet” (PFI Japan) and gathered activists to act for Participatory Democracy System (Referendum and Initiative) in Japan. He has also participated in Worldwide Direct Democracy Movement (WDDM) since 2000.
In 2001, he published the book “Liberal Power --- Condition to overcome a badly-sickened society”.
