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This book is an extensively expanded and revised version of the Jap-anese work The Educational Principles of Enryō Inoue (titled by philoso-pher IIJIMA Munetaka, supervised by sociologist TAKAGI Hiroo, and authored by MIURA Setsuo), which was published in 1987 to com-memorate the hundredth anniversary of the university’s founding. The first edition was well received for tracing back to the roots of Toyo University and was distributed to incoming students for the fol-lowing thirty years. In 1990 university dean SHIOKAWA Masajūrō established the Inoue Enryo Memorial Center as a non-profit foundation, and concen-trated research began on the history of Toyo University and its founder Inoue Enryō. The center went on to publish the Japanese works One Hundred Year History of Toyo University, Inoue Enryō Selected Writings, and Chronological List of Inoue Enryō Related Literature. The cen-ter also presented its research in various arenas, inside the school and externally, and brought clarity to previously unresearched issues. There was a need to update The Educational Principles of Enryō Inoue to reflect the new information but while we were waiting for the right timing the years flew past. In 2014 the center was reorganized as a teaching and learning in-stitute under the name Inoue Enryo Research Center. The first direc-tor of this center, SHIBATA Takayuki, made a proposal to revise the book to fully reflect the life and thought of Enryō, including his ed-ucational principles and from there we started work. In terms of Acknowledgements 197