[KS] Mori's cockamie ideas

[Robert Ramsey]

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Date:       Thu, 07 Sep 2000 12:21:29 -0700
To:         korean-studies at iic.edu
From:       Mickey Hong <hong at humnet.ucla.edu>
Subject:    Re: hon-hyol's Japanese imperial origins

>Wasn't it Mori Arinori, a leading Japanese intellectual, who wrote to Herbert
>Spencer asking whether Japanese women should marry Western men to improve
>Japan's racial stock?  The latter thought it was very bad idea.

Thanks, Mickey,

This was the same Mori who wrote William Dwight Whitney at Yale asking how Japan could give up 
Japanese in favor of English as the national language. Mori (who was the Minister of Education 
in the Ito cabinet) was so serious about this he followed up with an official visit to New 
Haven to discuss the idea.

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Robert Ramsey
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