Albert M. Craig is Harvard-Yenching Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Harvard University, USA. He is the author of Choshu in the Meiji Restoration (1961), The Heritage of Japanese Civilization (2003), Civilization and Enlightenment: The Early Thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi (2009), and, with others, of East Asia, Tradition and Transformation (1973). He is the editor of Japan, A Comparative View (1973) and co-editor of Personality in Japanese History (1970). He was the director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. He has also been a visiting professor at Kyoto, Tokyo and Keio universities. He has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Japan Foundation Fellowships. In 1988 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government. Teruko Craig is Senior Lecturer Emerita at Tufts University, USA. She has translated several books from Japanese into English, including Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai (1988), The Autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi: From Peasant to Entrepreneur (1994), Remembering Aizu: The Testament of Shiba Goro (1999) and In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist, Hiratsuka Raicho (2010).

• IntroductionThe Progress of Civilization and the Stages of Government1. The Progress of Civilization2. Feudal Government, West and East3. Westerners View Japanese Feudalism4. Monarchy, the Second Stage of Government5. Whitewashing European Monarchy6. Representative Government, the Third Stage Fukuzawa’s PoliticsThe Later Essays7. The Division of Power (Bunkenron), 18778. On a National Assembly (Kokkairon), 18799. The Trend of the Times (Jiji taiseiron), 188210. Revering the Emperor (Sonnoron), 188811. The Future Course of the Diet (Kokkai no zento), 1890EndnotesAcknowledgmentsIndex

Fukuzawa offers a valuable contemporary view of the debates that led to the establishment of the political institutions of imperial Japan. Masterfully translated and set in context by helpful commentary, these essays show Fukuzawa changing his mind even as he stands fast.

Albert M. Craig is Harvard-Yenching Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Harvard University, USA. He is the author of Choshu in the Meiji Restoration (1961), The Heritage of Japanese Civilization (2003), Civilization and Enlightenment: The Early Thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi (2009), and, with others, of East Asia, Tradition and Transformation (1973). He is the editor of Japan, A Comparative View (1973) and co-editor of Personality in Japanese History (1970). He was the director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. He has also been a visiting professor at Kyoto, Tokyo and Keio universities. He has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Japan Foundation Fellowships. In 1988 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government. Teruko Craig is Senior Lecturer Emerita at Tufts University, USA. She has translated several books from Japanese into English, including Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai (1988), The Autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi: From Peasant to Entrepreneur (1994), Remembering Aizu: The Testament of Shiba Goro (1999) and In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist, Hiratsuka Raicho (2010).

• IntroductionThe Progress of Civilization and the Stages of Government1. The Progress of Civilization2. Feudal Government, West and East3. Westerners View Japanese Feudalism4. Monarchy, the Second Stage of Government5. Whitewashing European Monarchy6. Representative Government, the Third Stage Fukuzawa’s PoliticsThe Later Essays7. The Division of Power (Bunkenron), 18778. On a National Assembly (Kokkairon), 18799. The Trend of the Times (Jiji taiseiron), 188210. Revering the Emperor (Sonnoron), 188811. The Future Course of the Diet (Kokkai no zento), 1890EndnotesAcknowledgmentsIndex

Fukuzawa offers a valuable contemporary view of the debates that led to the establishment of the political institutions of imperial Japan. Masterfully translated and set in context by helpful commentary, these essays show Fukuzawa changing his mind even as he stands fast.

Albert M. Craig is Harvard-Yenching Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Harvard University, USA. He is the author of Choshu in the Meiji Restoration (1961), The Heritage of Japanese Civilization (2003), Civilization and Enlightenment: The Early Thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi (2009), and, with others, of East Asia, Tradition and Transformation (1973). He is the editor of Japan, A Comparative View (1973) and co-editor of Personality in Japanese History (1970). He was the director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. He has also been a visiting professor at Kyoto, Tokyo and Keio universities. He has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Japan Foundation Fellowships. In 1988 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government. Teruko Craig is Senior Lecturer Emerita at Tufts University, USA. She has translated several books from Japanese into English, including Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai (1988), The Autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi: From Peasant to Entrepreneur (1994), Remembering Aizu: The Testament of Shiba Goro (1999) and In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist, Hiratsuka Raicho (2010).

• IntroductionThe Progress of Civilization and the Stages of Government1. The Progress of Civilization2. Feudal Government, West and East3. Westerners View Japanese Feudalism4. Monarchy, the Second Stage of Government5. Whitewashing European Monarchy6. Representative Government, the Third Stage Fukuzawa’s PoliticsThe Later Essays7. The Division of Power (Bunkenron), 18778. On a National Assembly (Kokkairon), 18799. The Trend of the Times (Jiji taiseiron), 188210. Revering the Emperor (Sonnoron), 188811. The Future Course of the Diet (Kokkai no zento), 1890EndnotesAcknowledgmentsIndex

Fukuzawa offers a valuable contemporary view of the debates that led to the establishment of the political institutions of imperial Japan. Masterfully translated and set in context by helpful commentary, these essays show Fukuzawa changing his mind even as he stands fast.