American Pioneers and the Japanese Frontier: American Experts in Nineteenth-Century Japan

by Fumiko Fujita

In 1871-1882 fifty Americans, along with other foreign experts, were employed by the Japanese government to develop Japan's northern frontier, Hokkaido. Their work covered a wide scope of activities, from introducing Western agriculture and industry, constructing roads and a railroad, and surveying topography and mines, to establishing an agricultural college. While examining the overall undertaking, Professor Fujita specifically focuses on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313287880
• ISBN13: 9780313287886
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"