Tanaka Fujimaro

Viscount Tanaka Fujimaro (田中 不二麿, October 16, 1845 – February 1, 1909) was a Japanese statesman and educator in Meiji period Japan.

After the Meiji Restoration, he was selected to accompany the Iwakura Mission on its around-the-world journey to the United States and Europe.

On his return to Japan in March 1873 (six months earlier than the rest of the Mission), he was made Vice Minister for Education in 1874.

On his return to Japan, Tanaka strongly criticized the Education Order of 1875, which he felt made the system too centralized and inflexible.

The new Education Order of 1879 was based on his experiences in the United States, but it quickly came under attack as being confusing and inviting moral decay.

Tanaka Suma, his spouse