Independence of learning, application of learning, cultivation of model citizens.
学問の独立、学問の活用、模範国民の造就。

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Ōkuma Shigenobu
Meiji-Taisho statesman (1838-1922). Twice prime minister, founder of Waseda University, champion of parliamentary rule. Lost his leg to a bomb in 1889 and issued the controversial Twenty-One Demands on China in 1915.
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