01510nam a2200169Ia 4500 20250117103721.0 250117s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97805211735162 327.520KUN Kume, Kunitake. Japan rising the Iwakura embassy to the USA and Europe 1871-1873 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2009 xxx, 528 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. In 1871 Japan sent a high-ranking delegation to the USA and Europe, to negotiate treaties and trading agreements and to investigate how it might modernise its political and economic institutions. Led by the Foreign Minister Prince Tomomi Iwakura, the 'embassy' of politicians, courtiers and officials travelled extensively around the USA for eight months, before spending a further year examining the British manufacturing industry, German armaments and French culture. The Iwakura Embassy helped change the course of Japanese history, for the official report of this journey, compiled by Prince Iwakura's personal secretary, the Confucian scholar Kunitake Kume, was to play a key role in Japan's transformation into a modern industrial nation. The report was translated into English in five large volumes in 2002. This carefully prepared abridgement makes it accessible to a wider range of scholars and students, and to all who are interested in the remarkable rise of modern Japan. Kume, Kunitake, 1839-1931. 4740 4740 0 0 0 0 U001 U001 2025-01-17 0 327.520KUN 004800 2025-01-31 00:00:00 2025-01-17 BK