Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Here we have an extract from the autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi, famed Japanese reformer and a member of the first Japanese embassy to The United States after 200+ years of isolation.

Extract from The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi translated by Eiichi Kiyooka, 1934 edition.

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By World Imaging (talk) - Own work, photographed at Japan Currency Museum, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9665770
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