Foreign Employees in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Abstract

Part 1 The Yatoi phenomenon: The Yatoi phenomenon - An early experiment in technical assistance, Ardath W Burks live machines revisited, Hazel J Jones. Part 2 Case studies - North American views: William Elliot Griffis - the Tokyo years, 1872-1874, E R Beauchamp science and civilization in early Meiji Japan - the autobiographical notes of Thomas C Mendenhall, Richard Rubinger William Smith Clark, Yatoi, 1826-1886, John M Maki encounters with an alien culture - americans employed by the Kaitakushi, Fujita Fumiko westernizing influences in the early modernization of Japanese women's education, Dorothy Robins-Mowry principles and pragmatism - the Yatoi in the field of art, Ellen P Conant Edward Warren Clark and the formation of the Shizuoka and Koishikawa Christian bands (1871-1879), A Hamish Ion. Part 3 Case studies - Japanese views: Contributions of Edward S Morse to developing Yopung Japan, Isono Naohide Margaret C Griffis and the education of women in early Meiji Japan, Usui Chizuko american professors in the development of Hokkaido - the case of the Sapporo agricultural college (SAC), Akizuki Toshiyuki engineering and technical Yatoi in the Public Works Department of Meiji Japan, Imatsu Kenji William Elliot Griffis' lecture notes on chemistry, Uchida Takane, Oki Hisaya, Sakan Fujio, Isa Kimio, Nakata Ryuji Frederic Marshall as an employee of the Japanese legation in Paris, Yokoyama Toshio. Part 4 Archival resources: primary manuscript and printed sources for studying the Yatoi - the William Elliot Griffis papers and related special collection at Rutgers University, Clark L Beck Jnr.