death_date death_place religion birth_place era school_tradition main_interests birth_date notable_works known_for article_title name region
29 april 1962 kita-karuizawa , japan buddhist/christian tokyo , japan 20th-century philosophy ontology existentialism philosophy , philosophy of mathematics , ethics , metaphysics of religion , ontology , philosophy of science 3 february 1889 '' philosophy as metanoetics '' metanoetics , logic of species , buddhist-christian dialogue hajime tanabe
 hajime tanabe eastern and western philosophy
hajime tanabe

he was born in tokyo .
his father was the school principal of kaisei academy .
he enrolled in the university of tokyo first as a natural sciences student , then moved to literature and philosophy .
after graduation he worked in tohoku university as lecturer .
