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The founding members of the Doitsugaku Kyōkai Gakkō included academics Nishi Amane and Katō Hiroyuki with German Enlightenment thoughts, and politicians Inoue Kaoru, Katsura Tarō, Hirata Tōsuke and Shinagawa Yajirō, as well as diplomat Aoki Shūzō. Professor Georg Michaelis influenced Arimatsu so much that he applied the Higher Civilian Trial in 1888 and passed as the first private college graduate.