Research on the History of Compilation of Philosophy Dictionaries in Japan : Critical Investigation of Kiyoshi MIKI(ed.)"A Dictionary of Contemporary Philosophy"

日本哲学家三木清（1889-1945）编辑的《当代哲学词典》（1936年）是一部划时代的哲学词典，因为它最初采用了日本所谓的主标题原则。然而，词典在短短五年内进行了实质性修改，然后，“当代哲学新词典”（1941年）在第二年被禁止。可以说，这本词典是一面反映战时日本出版文化的镜子。它旨在兼具学术和新闻性质，因此在编撰史上占有独特的地位。

"A Dictionary of Contemporary Philosophy"(1936) edited by Japanese philosopher Kiyoshi MIKI(1889-1945) was an epoch-making philosophy dictionary, for it originally adopted so-called the main headings principle in Japan. However, the dictionary was substantially revised within only five years and then,"A New Dictionary of Contemporary Philosophy"(1941) was banned in the following year. That dictionary is, so to speak, a mirror by which publishing-culture under the wartime Japan was reflected. It aimed to equip with both an academic and a journalistic character, and so occupied a unique position in the history of compilation.