Ueda Kazutoshi 上田萬年 (1867-1937), who studied linguistics in Germany and has been called father of modern Japanese linguistics, was a believer of one country 國家, nation 民族 & language 言語, and a major proponent of a standard Japanese “national language” 國語
One of his early work is the book 國語論 (1895)
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