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Educador japonés, economista agrícola y diplomático (1862–1933)
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Join the roomNitobe Inazō fue un agrónomo, diplomático, politólogo, político y escritor japonés. Estudió en el Sapporo Agricultural College bajo la influencia de su primer presidente William S. Clark y posteriormente fue a los Estados Unidos a estudiar política agrícola. Tras regresar a Japón, se desempeñó como profesor en el Sapporo Agricultural College, la Universidad Imperial de Kioto y la Universidad Imperial de Tokio, y como vicesecretario general de la Sociedad de las Naciones. También se dedicó a la educación de las mujeres, ayudando a fundar el Tsuda Eigaku Juku y sirviendo como primer presidente de la Tokyo Woman's Christian University y presidente del Tokyo Women's College of Economics. También fue un firme defensor del colonialismo japonés y describió al pueblo coreano como "primitivo".
“Death for a cause unworthy of dying for, was called a "dog's death." "To rush into the thick of battle and to be slain in it," says a Prince of Mito, "is easy enough, and the merest churl is equal to the task; but," he continues, "it is true courage to live when it is right to live, and to die only when it is right to die."”
“Pilgrimages to all sorts of uncanny places—to execution grounds, to graveyards, to houses reputed to be haunted, were favorite pastimes of the young. In the days when decapitation was public, not only were small boys sent to witness the ghastly scene, but they were made to visit alone the place in the darkness of night and there to leave a mark of their visit on the trunkless head.”
“We knew Benevolence was a tender virtue and mother-like. If upright Rectitude and stern Justice were peculiarly masculine, Mercy had the gentleness and the persuasiveness of a feminine nature. We were warned against indulging in indiscriminate charity, without seasoning it with justice and rectitude.”
“All the sartorial ingenuity of mankind has not yet succeeded in sewing an apron that will efficaciously hide our sense of shame. That samurai was right who refused to compromise his character by a slight humiliation in his youth; "because," he said, "dishonor is like a scar on a tree, which time, instead of effacing, only helps to enlarge."”
“The present system of paying for every sort of service was not in vogue among the adherents of Bushido. It believed in a service which can be rendered only without money and without price. Spiritual service, be it of priest or teacher, was not to be repaid in gold or silver, not because it was valueless but because it was invaluable.”
“The state built on martial virtues...can never make on earth a "continuing city." Universal and natural as is the fighting instinct in man, fruitful as it has proved to be of noble sentiments and manly virtues, it does not comprehend the whole man. Beneath the instinct to fight there lurks a diviner instinct to love.”
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