Fukuzawa Yukichi: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Standard works on Fukuzawa include Carmen Blacker, The Japanese Enlightenment: A Study of the Writings of Fukuzawa Yukichi (1964); Masaaki Kōsaka, Japanese Thought in the Meiji Era (1958); and Wayne H. Oxford, The Speeches of Fukuzawa: A Translation and Critical Study (1973). More-recent treatments are Norio Tamaki, Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1835–1901: The Spirit of Enterprise in Modern Japan (2001); and Helen M. Hopper, Fukuzawa Yukichi: From Samurai to Capitalist (2005).

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Add new Web site: Keio University - Biography of Yukichi Fukuzawa. Jun 11, 2015
Add new Web site: UNESCO - International Bureau of Education - Biography of Fukuzawa Yukichi. Jun 11, 2015
Bibliography revised and updated. Jun 03, 2015
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