Between Arai Hakuseki and Adam Smith: Taguchi Ukichi, a Pioneer of Economic Liberalism in Meiji Japan

Abstract

The chapter focuses particularly on the crucial problem of how Taguchi grasped the general concept of Japanese civilization and the role of Japan in the context of changing order in East Asia at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Keywords

• Taguchi Ukichi
• economic thought
• liberalism
• Japan
• Meiji