Nakae Chomin
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Nakae Chōmin (中江 兆民 Nakae Chōmin) , a.k.a Nakae Tokusuke (中江 篤介 Nakae Tokusuke) (1847 - 1901) was a Japanese philosopher. Chōmin studied in France from 1871 to 1874 as part of the Iwakura mission. He translated some of the writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau into Japanese, as well as Eugène Véron's L'èsthétique.
He coined the term Minpon shugi (民本主義), "democracy".