Li Denghui is the former head of Taiwan. In the 2000 presidential election, he supported the candidacy of his vice-president, Lian Zhan, but, accepting responsibility for his defeat, resigned as chairman of the Kuomintang Party. After that, he also left the party, creating the Gongsakukai Society as his "think tank" and founding a new party, the Taiwan Unity Union. This is the state of affairs at the time of writing this report. In the 1990s, during his presidency, Li Denghui pursued a decade-long policy that helped revitalize the entire life of Taiwanese society. He has been greatly influenced by his distinguished predecessors, but his own authority as a former head of state is also very high. If you compare the bloodless revolution carried out by President Li Denghui with the state of affairs in China, its results can not be called magnificent. These achievements had a great impact on the political culture of "the Rest", which is opposed to "the West", to use the terms of S. Huntington's book "Clash of Civilizations", not to mention China, whose importance in the life of all modern humanity is so great. Li Denghui has a deep understanding of the history and current state of relations between the "West" and the "rest of the world", which is clearly evident from his writings. He can be called a modern thinker on a global scale. He is one of the few philosophers who is not only seasoned in the political struggle, but also has experience of successful state activity. This is how Odamura Shiro, the 16th president of Takusyoku University, described Li Denghui, who knows him well. By the way, President Odamura's maternal great-great-grandfather was one of the first Japanese to lay the foundations of the education system in Taiwan when the island was a Japanese possession. Lee and Nitobe have a lot in common. This is what I dedicated my report to our symposium on the history of Takusyoku University. Nitobe served as its vice-chancellor from April 1917 to April 1922. Li De ... Read more