- 15 Mar 2002
- 22,427
- 259
- 74
JREF submitted a new Article:
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Read more about this article here...
Fukuzawa Yukichi
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. His collected works, written over a period of thirty years, fill 22 large volumes and cover a variety of subjects ranging from philosophy to women's rights.
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Fukuzawa Yukichi, the great Japanese educator and modernizer (ca. 1887)
Fukuzawa was born in Ōsaka into the family of an impoverished low-ranking samurai of the the Okudaira clan of Nakatsu (中津, now part of Ōita Prefecture) in Kyushu. His father was a Confucian scholar who had to serve his feudal domain as an...
Read more about this article here...