Tokutomi Soho

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Tokutomi Sohō (徳富 蘇峰, born Tokutomi Iichirō (徳富 猪一郎), 1863 - 1957) was a Japanese historian and journalist. He was one of the most important thinkers of the Meiji Era. Tokutomi studied Social Darwinism at a Christian university in Tokyo. He became a writer and proponent of modernization by founding the "Society of Friends" and publishing the magazine Friend of the People. These efforts encouraged the general populace to embrace the Western spirit as well as Western technology.

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