was a
Japanese
Japanese may refer to:
* 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
is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
It became the sole port used for trade with the Portuguese and Dutch during the 16th through 19th centuries. The Hidden Christian Sites in the ...
, Japan. He traveled Europe as a
translator
Translation is the communication of the Meaning (linguistic), meaning of a #Source and target languages, source-language text by means of an Dynamic and formal equivalence, equivalent #Source and target languages, target-language text. The ...
, and in 1874, became a main writer for the ''
Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.4 ...
'' newspaper. In 1882, he formed the
Constitutional Imperial Rule Party.
References
Japanese male writers
1841 births
1906 deaths
Japanese journalists
Male dramatists and playwrights
Male journalists
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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