1st Edition

Building Japan 1868-1876

By Richard Henry Brunton Copyright 1995
    292 Pages
    by Routledge

    292 Pages
    by Routledge

    Personal account of one of the Westerners who helped build modern Japan (see also study by Pedlar - also available from Curzon Press).

    One: My Appointment to Japan; Two: The First Telegraph in Japan; Three: Laying out a New Settlement; Four: Water and Light; Five: Building Iron Bridges; Six: Osaka: An Interned City; Seven: Taming the Rivers; Eight: The Gold Mines of Sado 1; Nine: The Pioneer Railway in the Far East; Ten: Maps, 1 Surveys and Engineering Education; Eleven: The New Coinage; Twelve: The Great Fire in Tokio; Thirteen: The Craze for Steamers; Fourteen: Location of the Lighthouses; Fifteen: In the Historic Port of Nagasaki 1; Sixteen: Buying a Lighthouse Tender; Seventeen: My Visit to Satsuma; Eighteen: The American Warship Oneida; Nineteen: The Purchase of the Thabor; Twenty: The Jealous Japanese; Twenty-One: The Dockyard at Yokosuka; Twenty-Two: The Expedition to Formosa; Twenty-Three: Vicissitudes; Twenty-Four: Necessity, the Mother of Invention; Twenty-Five: Building Ships; Twenty-Six: Audience of the Emperor; Twenty-Seven: The Great Embassy to the Treaty Powers; Twenty-Eight: Home Again with the Japanese in England; Twenty-Nine: Japanese Petroleum; Thirty: Women's Education in Japan; Thirty-One: The Japanese in Bad Temper; Thirty-Two: The Yokohama Harbour Scheme; Thirty-Three: Maintaining Discipline; Thirty-Four: Keeping up the Standard; Thirty-Five: The Riu Kiu Islands; Thirty-Six: Personal Judgements

    Biography

    Richard Henry Brunton