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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 23 October 1998
- ISBN 9781873410844
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Examines the top ministerial team sent in 1872 by the new Meiji government to the West in order to idenitify, classify and assess Western technology and culture, and to open a dialogue to review the so-called 'unequal treaties'.
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Driven by the need to identify, classify and assess western technology and culture together with a desire to advance a dialogue for reviewing the so-called 'unequal treaties' - the new Meiji government of 1868 despatched a top-level ministerial team to the west which, in 1872, arrived in the United States. In all, they spent 205 days in America, 122 days in Britain and two months in France, as well as visiting other countries including Belgium, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Italy.
Drawing on the papers given at the triennial conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies, held in Budapest in August 1997 (the year also marking the 125th anniversary of Iwakura's arrival), this volume presents a valuable new overview of the mission as a whole, with the significance and impact of the visit to each country being separately assessed. A supplement to the book looks at several 'post-Iwakura' topics, including a review of the mission's chief chronicler, Kume Kunitake.
'A valuable contribution to the history of Japan's foreign relations in the 19th century. This book should be read by anyone interested in modern Japan and its history.' - Hugh Cortazzi, Asian Affairs More
Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 America 15 January–6 August 1872 2 Britain 17 August–16 December 1872 [1] Early Meiji Travel Encounters [2] The Mission’s Aims, Objectives & Results 3 France 16 December 1872–17 February 1873, 15–20 July 1873 4 Belgium 17–24 February 1873 5 Germany 7–28 March, 15–17 April, 1–8 May 1873 6 Russia 29 March–15 April 1873 7 Sweden 23–30 April 1873 8 Italy 9 May–2 June 1873 9 Engineering Education in Japan After the Iwakura Mission 10 The Social Whirl of ‘White’ Yokohama After Iwakura’s Return 11 Kume Kunitake as a Historiographer, The Iwakura Mission: Aftermath and Assessment. Appendix: Kume Museum of Art (Tokyo).
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