was the editor of the magazine ''

Nihonjin The are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago."人類学上は，旧石器時代あるいは縄文時代以来，現在の北海道〜沖縄諸島（南西諸島）に住んだ集団を祖先にもつ人々。" () Jap ...

'' during the

Meiji period The is an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization ...

, in which he argued against extreme

Westernization Westernization (or Westernisation), also Europeanisation or occidentalization (from the ''Occident''), is a process whereby Society, societies come under or adopt Western culture in areas such as Manufacturing, industry, technology, science, educ ...

External links

* ''Shiga Shigetaka, The forgotten Enlightener'

1863 births 1927 deaths Japanese editors Japanese geographers People from Okazaki, Aichi People of Meiji-period Japan {{japan-bio-stub