Selected Essays By Fukuzawa Yukichi

Author : Albert M. Craig
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
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Release : 2019-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350096622

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Selected Essays by Fukuzawa Yukichi by Albert M. Craig Pdf

During the sweeping changes taking place in 19th century Japan, no thinker was more important than Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901). Born into a low-ranking samurai family, he traveled to Nagasaki at age nineteen to study Dutch. In 1858, he was sent to Edo to teach Dutch to domain students. In his spare time he taught himself English using a Dutch-English dictionary. Two years later, he was appointed a translator of diplomatic documents at the shogunal office of foreign affairs. In 1862, he founded a school that is now Keio University. Eager to introduce Western history and ideas to the Japanese, he wrote a series of books, including the bestselling Conditions in the West (1866). In the late 1870s, he turned his attention to the prospects for parliamentary government in Japan. The central government was firmly in place and elective prefectural assemblies were about to be established. He wrote essays on the workings of such a system, drawing on his earlier travels abroad and his reading of de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, and others. A realist and optimist, Fukuzawa assured his readers of the eventual success of parliamentary government in Japan. This book provides the first-English language translation of five essays that bear directly on the development of his thought and its legacy in Japanese culture.

Author : Yukichi Fukuzawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1350096644

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Selected Essays by Fukuzawa Yukichi by Yukichi Fukuzawa Pdf

"During the sweeping changes taking place in 19th century Japan, no thinker was more important than Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901). Born into a low-ranking samurai family, he traveled to Nagasaki at age nineteen to study Dutch. In 1858, he was sent to Edo to teach Dutch to domain students. In his spare time he taught himself English using a Dutch-English dictionary. Two years later, he was appointed a translator of diplomatic documents at the shogunal office of foreign affairs. In 1862, he founded a school that is now Keio University. Eager to introduce Western history and ideas to the Japanese, he wrote a series of books, including the bestselling Conditions in the West (1866). In the late 1870s, he turned his attention to the prospects for parliamentary government in Japan. The central government was firmly in place and elective prefectural assemblies were about to be established. He wrote essays on the workings of such a system, drawing on his earlier travels abroad and his reading of de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, and others. A realist and optimist, Fukuzawa assured his readers of the eventual success of parliamentary government in Japan. This book provides the first-English language translation of five essays that bear directly on the development of his thought and its legacy in Japanese culture."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : East-West Center,Ryūkoku Daigaku
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015019471740

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Literary Relations East and West by East-West Center,Ryūkoku Daigaku Pdf

Author : Yoshida Shigeru
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461647447

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Yoshida Shigeru by Yoshida Shigeru Pdf

The most complete autobiography of Yoshida Shigeru available in English, this expanded translation of his memoirs traces the remarkable life and times of one of Japan's most powerful and influential figures. Yoshida (1878–1967), who served in China and Europe as a career diplomat, closely linked with the key political leaders who shaped the world in Japan's most tumultuous years in the first half of the twentieth century. He returned to politics to rebuild Japan as a five-time prime minister after the devastation of World War II. Yoshida retired from the Japanese Foreign Ministry in 1939 with the intention of leading a quiet life. Yet he knew the winds of war were stirring and presciently began behind-the-scenes maneuvering to avoid the calamitous Pacific War. Soon after Japan's defeat, Yoshida amassed the political power to form his own cabinet. Sandwiched between Japan's interests and major reforms advanced by MacArthur's occupation forces, Yoshida boldly pushed through many essential reforms, laying the foundation for his country's reentry into the global community. Richly laced with historical detail, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century Japan. Exploring Yoshida's and Japan's linked histories, the book traces Yoshida's lengthy tenure in China, his travel abroad as a member of Japan's mission to conclude World War I, the interwar years spent as a high-ranking diplomat in Europe, his role in the days leading up to the Pearl Harbor attack, his view on the loss of war, his insights into MacArthur's character, Japan's postwar economic woes, the new constitution, the threat of communism, the imperial system, and the San Francisco Peace Conference in 1958 that guaranteed Japan's sovereignty.

Author : Dr Brian Carr,Brian Carr,Indira Mahalingam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134960583

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Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy by Dr Brian Carr,Brian Carr,Indira Mahalingam Pdf

The Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy is a unique one-volume reference work which makes a broad range of richly varied philosophical, ethical and theological traditions accessible to a wide audience. The Companion is divided into six sections covering the main traditions within Asian thought: Persian; Indian; Buddhist; Chinese; Japanese; and Islamic philosophy. Each section contains a collection of chapters which provide comprehensive coverage of the origins of the tradition, its approaches to, for example, logic and languages, and to questions of morals and society. The chapters also contain useful histories of the lives of the key influential thinkers, as well as a thorough analysis of the current trends.

Author : Mark Elwood Lincicome
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 082481620X

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Principle, Practice, and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan by Mark Elwood Lincicome Pdf

Scholars of modern Japan agree that education played a crucial role in that country's rapid modernization during the Meiji period (1868-1912). With few exceptions, however, Western approaches to the subject treat education as an instrument of change controlled by the Meiji political and intellectual elite. Principle, Praxis, and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan offers a corrective to this view. By introducing primary source materials (including teaching manuals, educational periodicals, and primary school textbooks) missing from most English-language works, Mark Lincicome examines an early case of resistance to government control that developed within the community of professional educators. He focuses on what began, in 1872, as an attempt by the newly established Ministry of Education to train a corps of professional teachers that could "civilize and enlighten" the masses in compulsory primary schools. Through the Tokyo Normal School and other new teacher training schools sponsored by the government, the ministry began what it thought was a straightforward "technology transfer" of the latest teaching methods and materials from the United States and Europe. Little did the ministry realize that it was planting the seeds of broader reform that would challenge not only its underlying doctrine of education, but its very authority over education. The reform movement centered around efforts to explicate and disseminate the doctrine of kaihatsushugi (developmental education). Hailed as a modern, scientific approach to child education, it rejected rote memorization and passive learning, elements of the so-called method of "pouring in" (chunyu) knowledge practiced during the preceding Tokugawa period, and sought instead to cultivate the unique, innate abilities of each child. Orthodox ideas of "education," "knowledge," and the process by which children learn were challenged. The position and responsibilities of the teacher were enhanced, consequently providing educators with a claim to professional authority and autonomy - at a time when the Meiji state was attempting to control every facet of the Japanese school system. Principle, Praxis, and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan analyzes a key element to understanding Meiji development and modern Japan as a whole.

Author : Yukichi Fukuzawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015011874594

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Fukuzawa Yukichi on Education by Yukichi Fukuzawa Pdf

Author : A. Macfarlane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403913906

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The Making of the Modern World by A. Macfarlane Pdf

At the start of the third Christian millennium we are aware of massive political, economic and ideological changes which condition the chances of liberty, wealth and equality. Yet it is surprisingly difficult for us to understand these forces, for we cannot see what surrounds us so closely. This book analyses our condition by looking at the work of two great thinkers, one of whom provides a deep historical perspective, the other a wide comparative analysis. F.W. Maitland (1850-1906) was more than the greatest professional historian of modern times, he was a philosopher who provides a brilliant sketch of how our strange world has come about, particularly in his work on associations and trusts. Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901) more than any other created the institutions of modern Japan. As an outsider he provides a brilliant insight into the heart of the new capitalist and industrial civilization which had emerged in the west.

Author : Yukichi Fukuzawa
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231536615

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An Encouragement of Learning by Yukichi Fukuzawa Pdf

The intellectual and social theorist Yukichi Fukuzawa wrote An Encouragement of Learning (1872–1876) as a series of pamphlets while completing his critical masterpiece, An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (1875). These closely linked texts illustrate the core tenets of his philosophical outlook: freedom and equality as inherent to human nature, independence as the goal of any individual and nation, and the transformation of the Japanese mind as key to advancing in a rapidly evolving political and cultural world. In these essays, Fukuzawa advocated for the adoption of Western modes of education to help the Japanese people build a modern nation. He also believed that human beings' treatment of one another extended to and was reflected in their government's behavior, echoing the work of John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, and other Western thinkers in a classically structured Eastern text. This volume translates the full text into English and includes a chronology of Japanese history as it relates to Fukuzawa and his work. An introduction provides additional background on the life and influence of this profound thinker, and a selection of representative writings and suggestions for further reading fully introduce readers to the rare brilliance of his thought.

Author : Yeounsuk Lee
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780824833053

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The Ideology of Kokugo by Yeounsuk Lee Pdf

Looks at the history and ideology behind the construction of kokugo (national language). This book discusses the contributions of Ueda Kazutoshi (1867-1937) and Hoshina Koichi (1872-1955) in the creation of kokugo and moves us one step closer to understanding how the ideology of kokugo cast a spell over linguistic identity in modern Japan.

Author : Tetsuo Najita
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520260382

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Ordinary Economies in Japan by Tetsuo Najita Pdf

"Ordinary Economies in Japan directs our attention to a subordinate yet powerful theme in modern Japanese economic thought that appeared unobtrusively in the mid-Tokugawa period and found expression in the formation of voluntary, non-hierarchical associations of commoners who purposively organized their self-help activities apart from state authority. Tetsuo Najita's compelling analysis of kô is groundbreaking and explains a great deal about Japanese modernization that economic historians have overlooked or undervalued."—Stephen Vlastos, University of Iowa

Author : Christopher Goto-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134308606

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Political Philosophy in Japan by Christopher Goto-Jones Pdf

Political Philosophy in Japan focuses on the politics of Japan's pre-eminent philosophical school - the Kyoto School - and particularly that of its founder, Nishida Kitarô (1870-1945). Existing literature on Nishida is dismissive of there being serious political content in his work, and of the political stance of the wider school. Goto-Jones contends that, far from being apolitical, Nishida's philosophy was explicitly and intentionally political, and that a proper political reading of Nishida sheds new light on the controversies surrounding the alleged complicity of the Kyoto School in Japanese ultra-nationalism. This book offers a unique and potentially controversial view of the subject of Nishida and the Kyoto School.

Author : Sukehiro Hirakawa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004213821

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Japan's Love-Hate Relationship with the West by Sukehiro Hirakawa Pdf

Introductory chapters cover Japan’s historic love-hate relationship with China, then an in-depth analysis of three themes: Japan’s turn to the West; Japan’s return to the East; from war to peace. The book explains why Japanese modern writers oscillate between East and West.

Author : Shichihei Yamamoto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001744346

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The Spirit of Japanese Capitalism and Selected Essays by Shichihei Yamamoto Pdf

In this searching, marvelously informative book, Yamamoto Shichihei traces the roots of Japan's modern business society. He shows how the Japanese version of the Protestant work ethic had its beginnings with Buddhist and Confucian thinkers, even through centuries of self-imposed isolation. The Japanese original is highly revered by young Japanese executives.

Author : Albert M. Craig
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674031083

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Civilization and Enlightenment by Albert M. Craig Pdf

The Scottish enlightenment and the stages of civilization -- American geography textbooks -- John Hill Burton's Political economy -- Invention, the engine of progress -- An outline of theories of civilization -- Reflections.