Nakae Chōmin

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Nakae Chōmin was a prominent Meiji-era Japanese political thinker, journalist, and translator who helped introduce Western liberal ideas to Japan and became a leading advocate for democracy and civil rights.

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instanceOf Meiji-era intellectual
journalist
person
political thinker
translator
activity participation in the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement
advocated civil liberties
constitutional government
freedom of speech
popular sovereignty
representative government
birthName Nakae Tokusuke
countryOfCitizenship Japan
era Meiji era
surface form: Meiji period
ethnicGroup Japanese
fieldOfWork education
journalism
political philosophy
translation
givenName Tokusuke
influenced Japanese democratic thought
Taishō democracy intellectuals
influencedBy French Enlightenment thought
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
knownFor advocacy of civil rights in Japan
advocacy of democracy in Japan
introducing Western liberal ideas to Japan
languageOfWorkOrName French
Japanese
movement Freedom and People’s Rights Movement
Japanese liberalism
name Nakae Tokusuke
surface form: Nakae Chōmin
nativeName 中江兆民
notableIdea adaptation of Rousseau’s social contract theory to Japan
critique of authoritarian government in Meiji Japan
notableWork A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government
Ichinen yūhan
Sansuijin keirin mondō
occupation educator
journalist
political philosopher
politician
translator
politicalIdeology liberalism
republicanism
pseudonym Chōmin
region Japan
translatedAuthor Jean-Jacques Rousseau
translatedWork The Social Contract

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