"To recount the history of assassination since the beginning of our foreign intercourse β in the beginning, people simply hated the foreigners because all foreigners were "impure" men who should not be permitted to tread the sacred soil of Japan... As I have said before, I felt my life in greatest danger during the twelve or thirteen years around the period of the [Meiji] Restoration."
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Fukuzawa Yukichi
Fukuzawa Yukichi (η¦ζΎ€ θ«ε Yukichi Fukuzawa; 10 January 1835 β 3 February 1901) was a Japanese author, writer, teacher, entrepreneur and political theorist whose ideas about government and social institutions made a lasting impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the period known as the Meiji Era.
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