Jūji Tanabe
Jūji Tanabe was a Japanese literature scholar, teacher, and mountain climber.
Tanabe was born in Toyama City. He majored in English literature at Tokyo Imperial University, specializing in William Wordsworth. He lectured at Toyo University and Hosei University.
He climbed the Japanese Alps and Okuchichibu Mountains. He wrote a book, The Japanese Alps and a Pilgrimage to Chichibu in 1919. This book was republished as Mountains and Ravines in 1930.
Tanabe and his friend Kogure Ritarō's accounts of the Okuchichibu Mountains have become influential. There is a monument to them at the foot of the Mt. Kimpu.
