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It is well known that Fukuzawa Yukichi is known as a pioneer in the idea of abandoning Asian and accepting Western ideas as put forth in his work “Datsu－A Ron” or “Abandoning Asia”. In this work, Fukuzawa stated that Asia should abandon political, economical, philosophical and cultural aspects of Asia. One might think that this work is a comprehensive examination of Fukuzawa’s philosophical ideas. In fact, this work might be more closely related to his own ideas regarding Confucianism, its structure and his analysis of it. This paper attempts to justify this idea. The reason for this is that Fukuzawa’s idea of Confucianism, also considered to be Modern New Confucianism, is closely related to a very famous and representative Confucian scholar of the day, Professor Du Weiming. Fukuzawa separated theory of Zhougong－Kongzi and historical poison of corrupt, and though one might consider his writing to be a slight criticism of Professor Du Weiming, it might rather be important to realize the importance of his standard of morals as represented in this work. Through an understanding of this, one can then realize that Fukuzawa thought it was important to “abandon Asia” via only an abandonment of the Confucianist political structure as opposed to a complete abandonment of all that is Asia and its ever so important culture.