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: His scholarship influenced postwar Japanese thinking on democracy and the structure of a healthy, functioning civil society. Alternative Possibilities

Zenya Takashima (1904–1990) was a pivotal figure in Japanese social science. His most significant work involves the reception and interpretation of Adam Smith's theories in a Japanese context. zenya lai

: He argued that Smith's notion of "civil society" (shimin shakai) was essential for understanding modern capitalism and protecting individual intellectual freedom against the rise of Fascism in the 1930s. : His scholarship influenced postwar Japanese thinking on