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Honda Toshiaki

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{{Refimprove|date=December 2009}}{{Japanese name|Honda}}{{nihongo|Honda Toshiaki|本多利明||1744 - January 25, 1821, born in Murakami, Niigata Prefecture}} was a Japanese political economist in the late Edo period.

Born in Echigo, Toshiaki went to Edo to study astronomy, mathematics and kendo. At the age of 24, he opened his own school. He wrote A Secret Plan of Government (Keisei Hisaku; 経世秘策), in which he proposed lifting a ban of a foreign trade and colonization of Ezo, and Tales of the West (Seiiki Monogatari; 西域物語), both in 1798.^[1]

Toshiaki was a polymath who knew a bit about the Western world, and wrote that Japan ought to mimic the policies of England, another island country, and "called for more active official promotion of national wealth and strength". In particular, he wrote about four goals for the Japan of his day:

Production of gunpowder
Smelting of iron and other metals
Setting up a merchant fleet
Settlement of Ezo in the north^[2]

References

1. ^Excerpts of both can be found in the book by Donald Keene.
2. ^{{cite book|last1=Duus|first1=Peter|title=Modern Japan|date=1998|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company|location=Stanford University|isbn=0-395-74604-3|page=58|edition=2nd}}

Bibliography

Keene, Donald. The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830. Stanford: Stanford University Press. {{ISBN|0-8047-0668-9}}. [revised and expanded edition of The Discovery of Europe: Honda Toshiaki and Other Discoverers, 1720-1798, London, 1952]

5 : 1744 births|1821 deaths|People from Niigata Prefecture|18th-century Japanese mathematicians|19th-century Japanese mathematicians

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