"´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Gijuku has never closed for a single day" (Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi)
Formally, it is called the Yukichi Fukuzawa-Francis Wayland Memorial Lecture. On May 15, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app 4 (1868), amidst the Boshin War, a battle between the Imperial forces and the Shogitai took place in Ueno. While the booming of cannons echoed throughout Edo, Yukichi Fukuzawa, undeterred, lectured on Wayland's imported economics textbook as usual, demonstrating to his students that academic study could not be neglected for even a single day. In commemoration of this event, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app holds an annual memorial lecture on May 15, designated as the Yukichi Fukuzawa-Francis Wayland Memorial Lecture Day.
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List of Past Wayland Lectures
?The content of past lectures is published in Mita-hyoron (official monthly journal published by ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Press).
*Back issues of Mita-hyoron are available ?(They are also held in libraries on each campus).
2025
Keigo Komamura (Professor, Faculty of Law, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app)
2024
Shigehiko Ioku (Professor Emeritus, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app)
2023
Yusaku Matsuzawa (Professor, Faculty of Economics, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app)
2022
Tetsuya Suzuki (Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app)
2021
Yoshikazu Kenjo (Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app)
2020
Yukihiro Ikeda (Dean, Faculty of Economics, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app)
¡°Discourses of Yukichi Fukuzawa and Economics: At the Threshold of Old and New ideologies.¡±
2019
Shunpei Takemori (Professor, Faculty of Economics, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app)
¡°Globalization and Populist Politics.¡±
2018
Sayuri Shirai (Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app)
¡°The Advantages and Disadvantages of Monetary Easing from the Perspective of a Former Member of the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan.¡±
2017
Naoyuki Agawa (Professor Emeritus, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app / Distinguished Visiting Professor, Doshisha University)
¡°The Constitution Translated by Fukuzawa: the Way of the United States of America.¡±
2016
Shinya Sugiyama (Professor Emeritus, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app)
"Momosuke Fukuzawa and Yasuzaemon Matsunaga"??
2015
Kohei Komamura (Professor, Faculty of Economics, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app)
"The Challenges and Possibilities of Social Policy"??
2014
Tetsuya Komagata (Professor, Faculty of Economics, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app)
¡°Considering the Chinese Economy: Will the 'Socialist Market Economy' Continue?¡±
2013
Naoyuki Yoshino (Professor, Faculty of Economics, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app)
"Changes in the Financial Environment Surrounding the Japanese Economy and Fiscal and Monetary Policies for Economic Recovery"??
2012
Mitsunori Yoneyama (Professor, Teacher Training Center, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app / Director, Fukuzawa Memorial Center for Modern Japanese Studies)
"Reconsidering Sh¨±shin Y¨ry¨: Fukuzawa's Moral Code'"??
2011
Masanori Komuro (Dean, Faculty of Economics, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app)
"Yukichi Fukuzawa's Economic Theory"??
2010
Kinichi Matsuzaki (Teacher Emeritus, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app)
¡°On the Genesis of the Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi: Yukihci Fukuzawa in His Later Years.¡±
2009
Fujio Maeda (Professor Emeritus, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app / Former Director, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Art Center)
¡°Anticipation of Modern Design: Yukichi Fukuzawa in the Art History.¡±
2008
Shuhei Shiozawa (Dean, Faculty of Economics, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app)
¡°Shinzo Koizumi, a ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Boy: An Embodiment of the Source of Honorable Character and Morals for the Entire Nation.¡±