The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe
Driven by the need to identify, classify and assess western technology and culture together with a desire to advance a dialogue for reviewing the so-called ''unequal treaties'' - the new Meiji government of 1868 despatched a top-level ministerial team to the west which, in 1872, arrived in the United States. In all, they spent 205 days in America, 122 days in Britain and two months in France, as w...
Driven by the need to identify, classify and assess western technology and culture together with a desire to advance a dialogue for reviewing the so-called ''unequal treaties'' - the new Meiji government of 1868 despatched a top-level ministerial team to the west which, in 1872, arrived in the United States. In all, they spent 205 days in America, 122 days in Britain and two months in France, as w...
