Diplomats and Scholars
- Iwakura Tomomi
- Although he never assumed a government post, another influential Meiji period figure was Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835–1901). He was a prolific writer on many subjects, the founder of schools and a newspaper, and, above all, an educator bent on impressing his fellow Japanese with the merits of Westernization.
- British observer and diplomat Ernest Satow.
Read more about this topic: Foreign Relations Of Meiji Japan
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