Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Tables xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction: The Aims of Education for Modern Japan 1
7. Part I. The Feudal Foundation of Modern Japanese Education
8. 1. Education of the Samurai in Tokugawa Schools: Nisshinkan 11
9. 2. Education of the Samurai in the West: London University and Rutgers College, 1863–1868 28
10. 3. The Meiji Restoration: Reemergence of Tokugawa Schools, 1868–1871 47
11. Part II. The First Decade of Modern Education, 1870s: The American Model
12. 4. The Gakusei: The First National Plan for Education, 1872 61
13. 5. The Iwakura Mission: A Survey of Western Education, 1872–1873 77
14. 6. The Modern Education of Japanese Girls: Georgetown, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, 1872 97
15. 7. The Modern Japanese Teacher: The San Francisco Method, 1872–1873 112
16. 8. Implementing the First National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase I, 1873–1876 130
17. 9. Rural Resistance to Modern Education: The Japanese Peasant, 1873–1876 160
18. 10. The Imperial University of Engineering: The Scottish Model, 1873–1882 172
19. 11. Pestalozzi to Japan: Switzerland to New York to Tokyo, 1875–1878 182
20. 12. Scientific Agriculture and Puritan Christianity on the Japanese Frontier: The Massachusetts Model, 1876–1877 198
21. 13. The Philadelphia Centennial: The American Model Revisited, 1876 219
22. 14. The Second National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase II, 1877–1879 230
23. Part III. The Second Decade of Modern Education, 1880s: Reaction against the Western Model
24. 15. “The Imperial Will on Education”: Moral versus Science Education, 1879–1880 257
25. 16. The Third National Plan for Education: The Reverse Course, 1880–1885 284
26. 17. Education for the State: The German Model, 1886–1889 314
27. 18. The Imperial Rescript on Education: Western Science and Eastern Morality for the Twentieth Century, 1890 348
28. Notes 371
29. Index 407