著名的经济学家河上肇,1879年(明治12)10月20日出生于日本山口县岩国市一个下级士族之家,其父做过很长时期的村长。山口县即过去的长州藩,曾在明治维新的变革中起过主导作用,出过一大批“志士仁人”,因此,在维新成功后的明治政府中、军队中,“长州帮”占有很大势力。在山口县的青少年中有一种学习彼等先辈,也成为政治家军事家或志士仁人的气氛,而经过 The famous economist Kawakami Hajime, 1879 (Meiji 12) was born on October 20 in a family of lower literary families in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, and his father worked as a longtime village chief. Yamaguchi prefectures, or past prefectures of Changzhou, played a leading role in the reform of the Meiji Restoration and had a large number of “clerical and benevolent” people. Therefore, in the Meiji government after the success of the reform, Possession of great power. Among the young people in Yamaguchi prefecture, there is an atmosphere of learning from their ancestors and becoming a statesman or cleric.