Fukuzawa Yukichi
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Fukuzawa Yukichi was a Japanese writer, educator, and philosopher who is regarded as one of the key figures of the Meiji era for his efforts to introduce and promote Western ideas and institutions in
Fukuzawa in 1891
Fukuzawa's childhood home in Nakatsu, Ōita Prefecture
Fukuzawa in 1862
Fukuzawa posing in Utrecht as part of the First Japanese Embassy to Europe in 1862
The First Japanese Embassy to Europe was sent to Europe by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1862. The head of the mission was Takenouchi Yasunori, governor of Shimotsuke Province. The head of the mission sta
Fukuzawa Yukichi
…eventually becoming an official translator for the shogunate. He traveled abroad with the first Japanese mission to the United States in 1860 and the first mission to Europe in 1862. These experiences convinced him that Japan needed to adopt not only Western technology but also its social, economic, and political institutions…
The members of the Japanese Embassy visiting the 1862 International Exhibition in London, from the Illustrated London News.
Members of the embassy in Utrecht. The second is Fukuzawa Yukichi from the left.