Yukichi Fukuzawa was one of the most effective business entrepreneurs in early modern Japan. He was the inspiration for the Yokohama Specie Bank, without which the Japanese could not have set up a sound banking system. He began the bookstore chain Maruzen. He was adviser to the newly founded shipbuilding and mining giant Mitsubishi and helped bring the house of Mitsui into the modern age. This is both the story of his life and his transforming impact on Japan's economy.
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'Published in the centenary year of his death, this book supplies what has long been needed: a critical biography in English of a major Japanese figure. It contains fine illustrations and generous quotations from original sources which are of outstanding interest.' - Ian Nish, The Japan Society
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Norio Tamaki is Professor of Japan's Economic, Social and Banking History, Keio University.
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In the spring of 1885, Yukichi Fukuzawa's master, Iki Okudaira, dispatched Fukuzawa from Nagasaki, where he had assiduously been learning Dutch studies, back to Nakatsu, the castle town of Okudaira's domain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
baku fii, accountancy officer, jiji shinpo, lower class samurai, upper samurai, upper class samurai, bake fig, lower samurai, lower ranking samurai, dear old master, foreign commissioners, domain office, debating hall, domain house, domain school, western books, bank scheme Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Yokohama Specie Bank, New York, Yataro Iwasaki, San Francisco, Yukichi Fukuzawa, Takashima Coal Mine, Iki Okudaira, Encouragement of Learning, Finance Minister, First Book, United States, Bank of Japan, Heigoro Shoda, Hikojiro Nakamigawa, Koan Ogata, Michita Nakamura, Paternoster Row, Theory of Civilization, Kaoru Inoue, Keio University, Lord of Nakatsu, Nobukichi Koizumi, Education Ministry, Guided Tour, House of Mitsui New!
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In the spring of 1885, Yukichi Fukuzawa's master, Iki Okudaira, dispatched Fukuzawa from Nagasaki, where he had assiduously been learning Dutch studies, back to Nakatsu, the castle town of Okudaira's domain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
baku fii, accountancy officer, jiji shinpo, lower class samurai, upper samurai, upper class samurai, bake fig, lower samurai, lower ranking samurai, dear old master, foreign commissioners, domain office, debating hall, domain house, domain school, western books, bank scheme Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Yokohama Specie Bank, New York, Yataro Iwasaki, San Francisco, Yukichi Fukuzawa, Takashima Coal Mine, Iki Okudaira, Encouragement of Learning, Finance Minister, First Book, United States, Bank of Japan, Heigoro Shoda, Hikojiro Nakamigawa, Koan Ogata, Michita Nakamura, Paternoster Row, Theory of Civilization, Kaoru Inoue, Keio University, Lord of Nakatsu, Nobukichi Koizumi, Education Ministry, Guided Tour, House of Mitsui New!
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- The Elements of Political Economy by Francis Wayland on 5 pages
- Elements of Moral Science by Francis Wayland on 4 pages
- Commentaries on the Laws of England (Vol. 4) by William Blackstone on page 52, and Back Matter
- China Seas by John Harris in Back Matter
- Europe Interprets Japan by Daniels in Back Matter
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