Yukichi Fukuzawa (January 10, 1835-February 3, 1901), Osakan. He is a famous Japanese thinker, a prominent educator of the Meiji period, and a founder of a japanese famous private university.
He devoted his life to writing and educational activities, formed an enlightening educational ideology, and played a huge role in promoting the spread of Western capitalist civilization and the development of Japanese capitalism, so he was called "the father of modern education in Japan" and "the great hero of education in the Meiji period" by Japan.
On the morning of April 9, 2019, Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso held a press conference to announce that Japan would issue a new version of the banknote, re-printed with the latest design and new anti-counterfeiting methods, and the "classic figure" Fukuzawa Yukichi, who had been on the 10,000-yuan banknote since 1984, would be replaced by the Confucian businessman Shibusawa Eiichi, known as the "father of modern capitalism in Japan".
What kind of bananas look like, it is "yellow on the outside and white on the inside"! In modern times, Japan successfully rose to become one of the world's great powers through the Meiji Restoration. The Meiji Restoration, on the other hand, was a completely Westernized reform. Politically, militarily, or culturally, the Japanese have rapidly moved closer to the West and left Asia and entered Europe. At that time, after returning from a visit to the United States, Japan's modern enlightenment thinker Yukichi Fukuzawa began to vigorously advocate at home that the Japanese nation should break with its Asian neighbors and join the ranks of European countries.
Therefore, since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has abandoned the concept of Confucianism and fully embraced Western values, forming a social Darwinism that emphasizes the survival of the fittest. Since then, the Japanese have looked to Western powers as an example and the rest of Asia as barbarian lands.
And this mentality has not changed to this day. Today's Japanese, in the hearts of many of them, still regard themselves as "White Westerners" who are higher than Asians, and consider themselves to be part of the Western bloc and superior to Asians. For Western countries, especially the United States, it is a hippie smile and a stooped back. Facing the surrounding Asian countries, he looked like he was high up and had no one in sight.
The funny thing is that although the heart is fully Westernized, the face of the Japanese with yellow skin and dark eyes cannot be changed! Therefore, Japan is called the "banana imperialism" of "yellow on the outside and white on the inside"!
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