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 | | A nondenominational Protestant, Takagi felt that the Japanese should first learn this spirit if they were to develop liberal democracy in their country. |
 | | Takagi Yasaka (1889-1984), the father of academic American studies in Japan, whose translations of the Declaration of Independence in 1931 and 1952 set a standard for later translators in Japan. |
 | | A liberal democratic monarchist and nondenominational Protestant, Takagi believed that Japan needed both the tenno (emperor) system and Protestant ethics to develop and stabilize postwar democracy. |
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