was a
Japanese
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* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
critic and author, also known under the pseudonym .
Biography
Fukuchi Gen'ichirō was born in
Nagasaki
, officially , is the capital and the largest Cities of Japan, city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
Founded by the Portuguese, the port of Portuguese_Nagasaki, Nagasaki became the sole Nanban trade, port used for tr ...
, Japan. He traveled Europe as a
translator
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, and in 1874, became a main writer for the ''
Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun
The (lit. ''Tokyo Daily News'') was a newspaper printed in Tokyo, Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of ...
'' newspaper. In 1882, he formed the
Constitutional Imperial Rule Party.
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Japanese male writers
1841 births
1906 deaths
Japanese male journalists
Japanese male dramatists and playwrights
19th-century Japanese dramatists and playwrights
19th-century journalists
19th-century male writers
Writers from Nagasaki Prefecture
People from Nagasaki
Members of the Iwakura Mission
Members of the First Japanese Embassy to Europe
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