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The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe - A New Assessment (Paperback)
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The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe - A New Assessment (Paperback)
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Driven by two imperatives - the need to identify, classify and
assess Western technology and culture, as well as advance a
dialogue for reviewing the so-called "unequal treaties", the new
Meiji government of 1868 dispatched a top-level ministerial team to
the West, arriving first in the United States in January 1872. In
all, the mission spent 205 days in America, followed by 122 days in
Britain and two months in France, including visits to Belgium,
Germany, Russia, Sweden and Italy. The sheer scale of the mission's
"vision", and logistics was remarkable, even more so, however, was
the Japanese government's decision to allow so many of its top
people to be away together for such an extended period of time. The
findings of the mission were to have enormous significance
regarding the future direction of the new state of Japan. Drawing
on the papers given at the triennial conference of the European
Association of Japanese Studies in 1997 (which coincided with the
125th anniversary of the Iwakura mission), this overview of the
mission's goal and achievements separately assesses the content and
impact of the visit to each country.
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