Nakae Chomin

Nakae Chomin (中江兆民) , a.k.a Nakae Tokusuke (中江篤介) (1847 – 1901) was a Japanese philosopher. Chomin studied in France from 1871 to 1874 as part of the Iwakura mission. He translated some of the writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau into Japanese, as well as Eugène Véron's L'èsthétique.

He coined the term Minpon shugi (民本手技), "democracy".

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