Meiji Restoration
- "Rich Country, Strong Army" - The guiding principle behind the Meiji Restoration
- "The distinctive feature of Japan's early industrialization was the critical role played by women in the labour force" - Keneth B Pyle, Historian
- "Unimpassioned thought will show this victory China as nothing more than the beginnin of our foreign policy" (Fukuzawa, Mieji Liberal politician, on the victory in the Sino-Japanese war)