He was instrumental in the self-Westernization of Japan during the Meiji period -- explicitly as a means to resist Western imperialism.
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Fukuzawa Yukichi thought that national self-reliance (and beyond, greatness) was a direct consequence of personal self-reliance -- that Western countries had become powerful in large part due to their individualistic culture (which encouraged competition, education, & enterprise)
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You may know him as the guy on the ¥10,000 bill.
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