The Origins of Japanese Liberalism: Manjiro and the Tosa School
"Their impact and role in forming Japan’s earliest institutions are well-documented among historians. Why then do so few libertarians know about them?"
"Their impact and role in forming Japan’s earliest institutions are well-documented among historians. Why then do so few libertarians know about them?"
"Evil customs of the past shall be broken off and everything based upon the just laws of Nature."
"As new ideas and concepts flooded into Japan following its opening to the West, many Japanese [confronted] the problem of creating their own words for them."
"Where Japanese liberals failed to gain political power, they gained popular influence," popularizing previously unknown ideas to the Japanese public.