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Japan Encounters the Barbarian : Japanese Travellers in America and Europe
Japan Encounters the Barbarian Japanese Travellers in America and Europe Author:W. Beasley In this book a distinguished historian of Japan discusses Japan`s "cultural borrowing" from America and Europe. W. G. Beasley focuses on the mid-nineteenth century, when Japan`s rulers dispatched diplomatic missions to the West to discover what Japan needed to learn, sent students to learn it, and invited foreign experts to Japan to help put the... more » knowledge to practical use.« less