Fukuzawa Yukichi

was a Japanese educator, philosopher, writer, entrepreneur and samurai who founded Keio University, the newspaper '''', and the Institute for Study of Infectious Diseases.

Fukuzawa was an early advocate for reform in Japan. His ideas about the organization of government and the structure of social institutions made a lasting impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the Meiji period. He appears on the 10,000-Japanese yen banknote from 1984 to 2024. Provided by Wikipedia