Fukuzawa Yukichi

Who was Fukuzawa Yukichi?

Fukuzawa Yukichi was a Japanese author, Enlightenment writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur and journalist who founded Keio-Gijuku University, the newspaper Jiji-Shinpo and the Institute for Study of Infectious Diseases. He was early Japanese civil rights activist, liberalism ideologists. His ideas about government and social institutions made a lasting impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the Meiji Era. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern Japan. He is called a Japanese Voltaire. founder of Keiō Gijuku and Sankei Shimbun. Chinese style name was Shi'i, nickname was Sanjūikkokujin.