Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-225) and index.
America / Alistair Swale -- Britain: [1] Early Meiji travel encounters / Andrew Cobbing ; [2] The mission's aims, objectives & results / Ian Ruxton -- France / Richard Sims -- Belgium / Willy Vande Walle -- Germany / Ulrich Wattenberg -- Russia / Ian Nish -- Sweden / Bert Edström -- Italy / Silvana de Maio -- Engineering education in Japan after the Iwakura mission / Silvana de Maio -- The social whirl of "white" Yokohama after Iwakura's return / Olavi Fält -- Kume Kunitake as a historiographer / Shigekazu Kondo -- The Iwakura mission: aftermath and assessment / Ian Nish -- Appendix: Kume Museum of Art (Tokyo) / Fumiko Ito & Seiji Takata.
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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 despatched 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, and travelled widely in Europe, including visits to Belgium, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Italy." "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). Ian Nish has provided a valuable new overview of the mission's goals and achievements, with the content and impact of the visit to each country being separately assessed."--BOOK JACKET.
Iwakura, Tomomi, 1825-1883
Iwakura, Tomomi.
Japanese-- Europe-- History-- 19th century.
Japanese-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Culturele aspecten.
Diplomatic relations.
Diplomatieke missies.
Japanese-- Europe-- History-- 19th century.
Japanese-- United States-- History-- 19th century.