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Ozaki Yukio's life coincided with a century of transformation in Japan's history of finding an identity as a nation state and of founding the basis of a democratic government.
Ozaki Yukio, who was returned to his seat in the Japanese Diet twenty-five times, served in that body from its inception in 1890 to 1953. He served as the Minister of Education and as the Minister of Justice in the Okuma cabinets and, for 10 years, as mayor of Tokyo. A strong advocate of representative government, he both witnessed and propelled Japan's transformation from a late feudal society to a modern state.

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Ozaki Yukio Memorial Foundation is a private nonprofit organization based in Tokyo. It was established on 10 December 1956 and was formerly approved by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture the following year. On 25 February 1960, the Ozaki Memorial Hall and Clock Tower, built in front of the Diet with donations from all over Japan and around the world, were presented to the House of Representative. As a tradition, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan serves as its Chairman.

 

 

   

The Foundation was established to promote the vision and to carry out the unfinished mission of Ozaki Yukio, a statesman and man of principle whose whole life was given to promoting good governance and citizenship in Japan and to advocating Japan's contribution to the peaceful development of the world.

■Public lectures and discussion meetings on current political, economic and cultural topics are held several times a year in which discussion is encouraged between the audience and the invited speakers. These are normally held once every two months.

■ The Gakudo-juku, a regular series of special lectures and seminars for reinventing civil society in which the "students" are trained to think globally and act locally to make a difference in a fast changing world. A class of fifty to seventy "students" young and old meets every other Saturday to listen to politicians, researchers and business people and conduct group discussions with a view to making policy recommendations on things that matter locally, regionally and globally.

■Publication of the monthly magazine Sekai to Gikai ("The World and Parliament"). This magazine has been published since July 1961.

■The Ozaki Public Policy Study Meeting
are informal monthly meetings of business executives, politicians, and others to discuss politics and economy.

■The Foundation collects documents and materials about Ozaki Yukio and democratic developments in Japan; and it engages in research and publication on public policies, promotion of democracy, Ozaki Yukio's life and writings, and on striving for peace.