Inazo Nitobé

Nitobe Inazō (1862-1933): agriculturalist, scholar, Quaker, philosopher, statesman, educator. Nitobe Inazō was educated at Sapporo Agricultural College, University of Tokyo, Johns Hopkins, and University of Halle (Germany). Early in his life he expressed the desire to be a “bridge over the Pacific” and he devoted much of his life to promoting trust and understanding between the United States and Japan.