Background
Jugo Sugiura was born on April 19, 1855 in Shiga, Japan. Second son of Shigebumi, Confucian scholar of the Zeze Clan (Shiga Prefecture).
重剛 杉浦
Jugo Sugiura was born on April 19, 1855 in Shiga, Japan. Second son of Shigebumi, Confucian scholar of the Zeze Clan (Shiga Prefecture).
He was a disciple of Tando Takahashi, Confucian scholar of the same clan who was executed for his pro-Imperialist activities.
He entered the Daigaku Nanko (later the University of Tokyo) (1870) as a student dispatched by the Zeze clan at first. As the educational system changed, he subsequently studied at Tokyo Kaisei School. Was went to Britain to study chemistry as a member of the second group of overseas students of Education Ministry (1876).
After returning to Japan (1880), he was appointed director of Daigaku Yobimon (Preparatory School Attached to Tokyo University) and deputy chief of Professional Education Affairs Bureau of Education Ministry, and after resigning from this post in 1885 engaged in various kinds of speech-making and educational activities mainly as a civilian out of office.
In 1888, he jointly the established the nationalist organization Seikyosha with Miyake Setsurei, and published the journal "Nihonjin" (Japanese) advocating nationalism.
Later, after serving as director of the Toa Dobun Shoin (a college in Shanghai) and other posts, in 1914 he became Togu Gogakumonjo goyogakari (a teacher of the school for the Crown Prince in his Palace) and taught him Ethics.
