Please translate a piece of Japanese related to civilization and enlightenment

In the private sector, people represented by Fukuzawa Yukichi introduced the rational ideas of European and American trends. He traveled with the shogunate's foreign envoys and wrote the book "Western Affairs". As an introduction to Western civilization, this book became the best-selling book at the time. Mori Yurei, who studied in Britain and the United States from Satsuma (today's western part of Kagoshima Prefecture), proposed the abolition of Chinese characters and other ideas for the modernization of civilization and advocated the acceptance of Western civilization. He summoned Fukuzawa Yukichi and others to establish the Meirokusha. Committed to the popularization of enlightenment ideas. At the beginning of the Meiji era, efforts were underway to adopt Western civilization under the slogan "enlightenment".

In this way, modern Japan firmly embarked on the path of drastic social change with the goal of Western society. Since then, it has also been advancing on the path of Westernization in order to fight against Western powers.