Translated by Masanao NAKAMURA who was then an exchange student sent by the bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), Self-help was released under the title of Saigoku Risshihen in 1871 in Japan.
当時幕府の留学生だった中村正直が自助論を翻訳、『西国立志篇』として1871年に日本で発売された。