Rutgers Meets Japan, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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In 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. Griffis and Kusakabe were a small piece of a vast transnational network of leading modernizers of Japan in the 1860s and 70s. Through contributions from scholars and archivists in the U. S., Canada, and Japan, Rutgers Meets Japan aims to reconstruct these early Rutgers-Japan connections.