Inazo Nitobe Quote

We needed no Shakespeare to feel -- though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express it.

Inazo Nitobe

We needed no Shakespeare to feel -- though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express it.

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About Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazō (新渡戸 稲造, September 1, 1862 – October 15, 1933) was a Japanese educator, diplomat, agronomist and political scientist. He studied at Sapporo Agricultural College under the influence of its first president William S. Clark and later went to the United States to study agricultural policy. After returning to Japan, he served as a professor at Sapporo Agricultural College, Kyoto Imperial University, and Tokyo Imperial University, and the deputy secretary general of the League of Nations. He also devoted himself to women's education, helping to found the Tsuda Eigaku Juku and serving as the first president of Tokyo Woman's Christian University and president of the Tokyo Women's College of Economics.