Rutgers Meets Japan by Haruko Wakabayashi, Fernanda Perrone, ... - 9781978839106

Name: Rutgers Meets Japan by Haruko Wakabayashi, Fernanda Perrone, ... - 9781978839106
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Rutgers Meets JapanA Trans-Pacific Network of the Late Nineteenth Century\nAuthor(s): Haruko Wakabayashi, Fernanda Perrone, James Mitchell Hommes, Fuji Takagi, Noriko Ochiai, Satoshi Shiozaki, Andrew Hamish Ion, Joseph Michael Henning, John Everett Van Sant, Benjamin Duke\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978839106, 978-1978839106\nSynopsis\nIn 1867 Kusakabe Taro, a young samurai from Fukui, Japan, began studying at Rutgers as its first foreign student. Three years later, in 1870, his former tutor, friend, and Rutgers graduate, William Elliot Griffis, left for Japan to teach English and Science for three and a half years. The year 2020 marked the 150th anniversary of two landmark events in the history of the Rutgers-Japan relationship: the untimely death of Kusakabe only weeks before his graduation, and his friend Griffis departure to Japan. \n\n Griffis and Kusakabe were only a small piece of a vas.