Yukichi

A slang term for 10,000 yen. The term derives from the Japanese translator and political scientist Fukuzawa Yukichi, whose picture appears on the 10,000 yen banknote.

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Luego en 1890 se fundaria el Partido por la Reforma Constitucional, defensores del Liberalismo Ingles en manos de Fukuwasa Yukichi (1835-1901).

La revolucion industrial en el Japon del periodo Meiji una mirada historica del contacto de los nipones y el mundo occidental en el siglo XIX

First, the thought of social education, proposed as self-education, was introduced in 1877 by Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901).

Social education in Japan/Educacion social en Japon/Educacao social no Japao

For example, Fukuzawa Yukichi, a Meiji-Era intellectual (currently gracing Japan's yen 10,000 note) with great influence over Japan's development as an imperial power, wrote An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (Bunmei-ron no Gairyaku, 1875).

Japan's under-researched visible minorities: applying critical race theory to racialization dynamics in a non-white society

It covers from the time Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901), the founder of Keio Gijuku University in Tokyo and Japan's leading intellectual, invited the first American Unitarian missionary to Japan until the mission was closed.

Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji Competition for Universality

My analysis will particularly focus on the emergent notion of race in the works of Japanese enlightenment scholar Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901) and the biometric inscription of racial knowledge in early 20th-century Japan.

Towards a global genealogy of biopolitics: race, colonialism, and biometrics beyond Europe

Yataro Iwasaki once worked under Goto, but showed no interest until an elaborate sales contract was drafted in 1881 by the Meiji statesman Yukichi Fukuzawa.

Economic development and business groups in Asia: Japan's experience and implications

The modernizing of Japan was based on the idea of self-development and the founder of Keio University Yukichi Fukuzawa realized the need for gnational development and intellectual empowermenth through developing critical and debating skills to develop gcharacter and initiativeh.

Adapting New Educational Models for Japan-India Educational Partnership

There is Yukichi Yamamatsu's Stupid Guy Goes to India (2008) and its sequel Stupid Guy Goes Back to India (2010), which my own company published in English translation--but those are by a Japanese author, and were originally published in Japan.

Shut up about the market and show me your internal organs

It was Fukuzawa Yukichi, the father of the Japanese Enlightenment, who first drew the attention of policymakers and intellectuals to the importance of international exhibitions through his travelogues from Europe.

Revisiting Japan's cultural diplomacy: a critique of the agent-level approach to Japan's soft power

Meirokusha (literally translated as "the Association of the Sixth year of the Meiji period"--1873) was founded by Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901) and other prominent Meiji intellectuals in order to help the Japanese society adjust in a better and more effective way to the Western cultural models.

Ume Tsuda and Ioana Nitobe Garrison--identity recovered in the land of the other

Playwright Masataka Matsuda and director Yukichi Matsumoto have taken Tarkovskv's imagery as a cue for their own evocation of Fukushimals aftermath.

Toyko, Japan

The 1880s were dubbed the decade of "(western) civilisation and enlightenment" (bunmei kaika), culminating in 1885 with one of modern Japanese history's most seminal publications, written by the prominent Japanese thought-leader of the time, Fukuzawa Yukichi - his image can be found on the Yen 10,000 bank note - entitled Datsu-A/Nyu-O, or"exiting Asia/entering Europe.