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Yoshida Shoin: His Changing Image and Perspective of Humanity.
(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))
Byline: Tanaka Akira
Yoshida Shoin's Path through Life Yoshida Shoin (a.k.a. Torajiro) was born in 1830 as the second son of Sugi Yurinosuke, a lower-ranking samurai in the Choshu domain, which is the present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture in the western region of Japan's main island of Honshu. In the following year, Choshu was shaken by a serious uprising that reflected the contradictions of the era, and mounting pressure for change in the feudalistic policies of the Tokugawa shogunate.
At the age of five, Shoin was adopted by his uncle and became a member of the Yoshida family, hereditary ...
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