Foreign Employees In Nineteenth Century Japan - 9780367014230

Taylor & Francis

The product of research by US and Japanese scholars, this book is an assessment of the work of individual \""yatoi\"", and their contributions to the rapid development that characterized Meiji Japan (1868-1912). >  The product of research by US and Japanese scholars, this book is an assessment of the work of individual \""yatoi\"", and their contributions to the rapid development that characterized Meiji Japan (1868-1912). > Foreword: \u201CZa\u201D Yatoi\u2014An Appreciation -- Introduction -- The Yatoi Phenomenon -- The Yatoi Phenomenon: An Early Experiment in Technical Assistance -- Live Machines Revisited -- Case Studies: North American Views -- William Elliot Griffis: The Tokyo Years, 1872-1874 -- Science and Civilization in Early Meiji Japan: The \""Autobiographical Notes\"" of Thomas C. Mendenhall -- William Smith Clark, Yatoi, 1826-1886 -- Encounters with an Alien Culture: Americans Employed by the Kaitakushi -- Westernizing Influences in the Early Modernization of Japany