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Fukuzawa Yukichi (福澤 諭吉, January 10, 1835 – February 3, 1901) was a Japanese educator, philosopher, writer, entrepreneur and samurai who founded Keio University, the newspaper Jiji-Shinpō [ jp], and the Institute for Study of Infectious Diseases. Fukuzawa was an early advocate for reform in Japan.
Fukuzawa Yukichi (born January 10, 1835, Buzen, Japan—died February 3, 1901, Tokyo) was a Japanese author, educator, and publisher who was probably the most influential man outside government service in the Japan of the Meiji Restoration (1868), following the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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Sep 4, 2019 · Fukuzawa Yukichi: Advocate for Education and Independence. Culture History Sep 4, 2019. Educator and entrepreneur Fukuzawa Yukichi was a highly influential figure in nineteenth-century...
It was the beginning of modern Japan as we know it today. Yukichi Fukuzawa, who is most visible as the man portrayed on Japan's 10,000-yen note, is best known as one of modern Japan's first statesmen, a man responsible for introducing Western education, institutions, and social thought to Japan.
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Jul 4, 2016 · Fukuzawa Yukichi (福澤諭吉, 1835-1901) was a prominent educator, writer, and propagator of Western knowledge during the Meiji Period (1868-1912), founder of Keio Gijuku (慶應義塾, a private college, later Keio University), of Japan's first daily newspaper Jiji Shinpō (時事新報), and introduced the art of public speaking in Japan.
Dec 8, 2022 · Fukuzawa Yukichi: The Man Who Was “Civilization and Enlightenment” in Japan. By: Walter Donway December 8, 2022. “Each individual man and each individual country, according to the principles of natural reason, is free from bondage.”. Fukuzawa Yukichi made this statement in Japan in 1872, a few years after the end of Japan’s last ...
Fukuzawa Yukichi (1834-1901) was Japan’s preeminent interpreter of “civilization and enlightenment” (bunmei kaika) — the lifestyles, institutions, and values of the modern West that Japan strove to understand and embrace in the early decades of the Meiji period.
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