Commemorative Lecture on Yukichi Fukuzawa's Lectures on Wayland's *The Elements of Political Economy*: The "Moral Backbone" for the 21st Century —"Freedom," "Happiness," and "the Duty of a Maggot" in Fukuzawa's Philosophy— Keigo Komamura (Professor, Faculty of Law, 春雨直播app)

Commemorative Lecture on Yukichi Fukuzawa's Lectures on Wayland's The Elements of Political Economy: The "Moral Backbone" for the 21st Century —"Freedom," "Happiness," and "the Duty of a Maggot" in Fukuzawa's Philosophy— Keigo Komamura (Professor, Faculty of Law, 春雨直播app)

Event Date

2025.5.15（罢丑耻）

Event Venue

Other

Updated: 2025/04/30

2025/04/16

[Date] Thursday, May 15, 2025, 2:45 PM–4:15 PM (Doors open at 2:00 PM)

[Venue] Mita Enzetsukan (Public Speaking Hall), Mita Campus

[Eligibility] Open to everyone

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Lecture Outline

What were Yukichi Fukuzawa's theories on liberty and happiness, which he learned from Mill and Wayland? Fukuzawa's moral spirit, which he advocated as being "a paragon of intellect and morals for the entire nation," was inherited by Koizumi as a "moral backbone." This lecture will elucidate the fundamental structure of their spiritual legacy and discuss how it can be adapted to contemporary society, while also exploring what "intellect and morals" the Juku of the 21st century should inherit.

About the Speaker

[About the Speaker]

Year	Details
1989	Completed coursework for the Doctoral Programs at the Graduate School of Law, 春雨直播app
2000	Received Ph.D in Law from 春雨直播app
2003–2005	Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, 春雨直播app
2004–2005	Associate Professor, 春雨直播app Law School
2005–2014	Professor, 春雨直播app Law School
2005–辫谤别蝉别苍迟	Professor, Faculty of Law, 春雨直播app
2010–辫谤别蝉别苍迟	Member of the Advisory Board, Constitutional Revision Research Project, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
2012–2013	Principal, 春雨直播app Senior High School
2013–2021	Vice-President, 春雨直播app
2014–2020	Member of the Subcommittee on School Corporations, Council for University Chartering and School Juridical Person, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

[Major Publications]

"Tekisuto to shite no Hanketsu" (Judgment as Text) (Yuhikaku, 2016) (editor)

"Kempo Sosho no Gendaiteki Tenkai" (The Modern Turn in Constitutional Litigation) (Nippon Hyoron Sha, 2013)

"Sengo Nihon Kenseishi Kogi" (Lectures on Postwar Japanese Constitutional History) (Horitsu Bunka Sha, 2020) (editor)

"Liberty 2.0" (Kobundo, 2023) (editor)

"Shukensha o Utagau" (Questioning the Sovereign) (Chikuma Shobo, 2023)

"Intanetto obu Bureinzu no Ho" (The Law of the Internet of Brains) (Nippon Hyoron Sha, forthcoming)

Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism (Lexington Books, 2021) (co-editor)

Deciphering the Genome of Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2024) (co-author)

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