“I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries.”

— Fukuzawa Yukichi

Source: The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi (1897), Ch. XI.

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Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur … 1835–1901

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