Abstract
Hayami Akira refers to high level of interest in science of statistics on part of intellectuals, mainly associated with Meirokusha, including Fukuzawa Yukichi, Sugi Kōji, Tsuda Mamichi, Katō Hiroyuki, and Mitsukuri Rinshō. The earliest introduction of European-style statistical tables to Japan was publication in 1860 of Bankoku seihyo , translated into Japanese by Okamoto Hakukei and edited by Fukuzawa Yukichi. This was beginning of a flood of publications, spanning late Tokugawa period and first that translated or introduced Western statistical methods and data. The rise of statistics as a science in early Meiji period was of course connected to intense interest new Meiji government had in what Benedict Anderson has called the census as grammar of nationalism: in other words, quantitative grasp and control of population, land, resources and armed forces appropriate to a modern, unified nation-state. Keywords: European-style statistical tables; Hayami Akira; Japan; Meiji period; Sugi Kōji; Tsuda Mamichi
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