>I majored in English at Tokyo Gaigo Daigaku (= Tokyo University of
>Foreign Studies); I'm still (!) in the Department of English at OSU.
>
>Tokyo Gaigo Daigaku traces its history back to Bansho Shirabesho (=
>Institute for the Study of Barbarian Documents) established in 1856 (I
>think), a Tokugawa governmental institution for translation of European
>documents (Portuguese, Spanish, & Dutch at first & later English,
>German, & French) into Japanese.
Appropriately named
>
>***** ...This particular institution [Bansho Sirabesho] did not teach
>economics, but numerous members of its staff (most notably Kanda
>Takahira and Tsuda Mamichi) were the first translators and propagators
>of Western Economic thought....
>
I've seen some of this intellectual history of Japanese importation of political economy referred to before, in Makoto Itoh's boon on Value and Crisis [?].
Would you rate Makoto Itoh as a radical economist, Yoshie?
-- James Heartfield