The diaries of his second world trip were published together in the Philosophy Academy’s journal Oriental Philosophy from the install-ments he had sent back (later to be published in book form as Diaries of a Voyage West). However, this did not contain any mention of the Philosophy Academy’s policy following the incident. One person said of Enryō, if it kills me.” Once he had made up his mind to do something, he had the steel-willed courage to keep moving forward, over-coming all difficulties. Immediately after his return to Japan he was interviewed by a news-paper and it showed there had been no change to his principles. Enryō stated that he had submitted a petition to the Ministry of Education and that he had done so on behalf of the students that had been punished, but there had not been any response. He took the consistently uncompromising stance that, unless the problem af-fecting these students was solved, the school would not accept re-accreditation even if it were offered. This approach of outright de-clining a compromise was taken in line with what he saw as the duty of an educational facility. That is to say, he did not accept the pun-ishment for the incident. Moreover, Nakajima Tokuzō had resigned to take responsibility for the incident, but as soon as Enryō returned to Japan he asked him to return to work. In Nakajima’s diary entry for August thirty-first he writes, “I have enthusiastically agreed to once again become The Spirit of Independence and Self-reliance Doctor used to say, “I will not deviate from my principles even 140
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