Analysis of Fukuzawa Yukichi's Comments on Nagasaki Incident between China and Japan

Nagasaki incident which happened in August 1886 was a major diplomatic event which occurred after China and Japan signed the Tianjin "treaty" of Jiashen coup over North Korea. In the comments of the events in Nagasaki,Fukuzawa Yukichi believed that China should be responsible for the event and Chinese-style westernization model is the deep-seated reason of the event. At the same time,in order to prevent the recurrence in the future and conveniently handle such incident,he suggested the Japanese government fix the railway from Tokyo to Nagasaki as soon as possible. The discrepancy between his evaluation on the Chinese civilization and China's real strength caused the enormous contrast from the tough theory in the beginning to the settlement of "joy" after the incident. Thus it can be seen that the tough theory is just in order to make bravado to maintain the Japan's "national interest" on maximum extent. His comments on China has played the role of "adding fuel to the flames" in existence for anti-Chinese sentiment in Japanese society and also supported the policy toward China made by the Japanese internal government.