Nitobe Inazo

Born: 1862
Died: 1933
Japanese: 新渡戸稲造 (Nitobe Inazou)

Nitobe Inazô was a Meiji period writer, perhaps best known for his book Bushido: the Soul of Japan, which remains one of the chief sources for much of the modern misconceptions about the samurai. Nitobe was also an avid writer on colonization and colonialism, particularly on Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan.

Bushidô was published in 1900.

In 1908, Nitobe was named the first chair of colonial studies at the University of Tokyo. A series of lectures he gave on the subject in 1916-1917 have been described as having "constituted the first systematic study of the subject in Japan."^[1]

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Selected Works

Bushidô (1900)
Shokumin seisaku kôgi oyobi ronbunshû ("Collected Lectures and Essays on Colonial Policy")

References

↑ Mark Peattie, "Japanese Attitudes toward Colonialism, 1895-1945," in Peattie and Ramon Myers (eds.), The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945, Princeton University Press (1984), 86.

[1] Mark Peattie, "Japanese Attitudes toward Colonialism, 1895-1945," in Peattie and Ramon Myers (eds.), The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945, Princeton University Press (1984), 86.

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