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Yukichi Fukuzawa anyone?

• bokonist 17y ago
  His biography has been sitting on my shelf for a while, I really need to find time to read it.
  • jmtame 17y ago
    my favorite book to date
• defen 17y ago
  Great cultural disconnect from his autobiography: Japanese envoy: Is the sale and purchase of land in Amsterdam freely permitted? Dutch merchant: Certainly it is free. Envoy: Do you sell land to foreigners also? Merchant: Yes, as long as a foreigner is willing to pay for the land, we would sell any amount of it to any person Envoy: Then, suppose a foreigner were to put down a large sum of money to purchase a great tract of land in order to build a fortress, would you allow that too? Merchant: We never had occasion to think of such a case. Even though there are many rich men in England and France and other countries, we do not believe any merchant would spend money on such a venture.