Yoshizumi Higuchi (born 1955) is a Japanese critic and editor. After working for the literary magazines Gendaishi Techo and Bungei and in the editorial department of Iwanami Shoten, he taught and conducted research at Kanto Gakuin University. His criticism focuses on modern poetry and postwar theater, examining the relationships among historical experience, ideas, language, and the body. He also helped establish the Juro Kara Archive at Meiji University and contributed to exhibitions on the playwright’s early career. His major work, "Ayukawa Nobuo, Kyojo no Shigaku," explores poet Nobuo Ayukawa’s wartime experience and postwar thought and received the 19th Ono Tozaburo Award.
