• The foreign employees in Meiji Japan, known in Japanese as O-yatoi Gaikokujin (Kyūjitai: 御雇い外國人, Shinjitai: 御雇い外国人, "hired foreigners"), were hired by...
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  • The Government of Meiji Japan (明治政府, Meiji seifu) was the government that was formed by politicians of the Satsuma Domain and Chōshū Domain in the 1860s...
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    The Meiji Restoration (Japanese: 明治維新, romanized: Meiji Ishin), referred to at the time as the Honorable Restoration (御維新, Goisshin), and also known as...
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    Empire of Japan (Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國憲法; Shinjitai: 大日本帝国憲法, romanized: Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kenpō), known informally as the Meiji Constitution (明治憲法, Meiji Kenpō)...
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    November 1852 – 30 July 1912), posthumously honored as Emperor Meiji, was the 122nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Reigning...
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  • Colyer Meriwether (category Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan)
    of Higher Education in South Carolina, 1889 Date Masamune and His Embassy to Rome, 1892 Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan "Colyer Meriwether"...
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  • The Last Samurai (category Films set in the Meiji period)
    stories.” Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan Ōmura Masujirō French Military Mission to Japan (1867) Mark Rappaport (creature effects artist) In the...
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    Guido Verbeck (category Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan)
    political advisor, educator, and missionary active in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan. He was one of the most important foreign advisors serving the Meiji government...
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  • Henry Walton Grinnell (category Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan)
    Peninsula on Devon Island is named after him. Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan The Royal Navy in Polar Exploration from Franklin to Scott, E C...
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    prominent foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan (o-yatoi gaikokujin). The Ryōunkaku was Japan's first western-style skyscraper, constructed in 1890 in Asakusa...
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    Seven Universities Imperial Rescript on Education Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan Japanese history textbook controversies Shotouka-Chiri Kelly...
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    Albert Favre Zanuti (category Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan)
    husband's surname Sorrentino). Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan François Perregaux Meiji period Foreign relations of Japan Immigration records of Zanuti's...
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    The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January...
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    Jakob Meckel (category Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan)
    July 1906) was a general in the Prussian army and foreign advisor to the government of Meiji period Japan. Meckel was born in Cologne, Rhine Province,...
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    The foreign cemeteries in Japan (外国人墓地, gaikokujin bochi, "foreigner cemetery") are chiefly located in Tokyo and at the former treaty ports of Kobe, Hakodate...
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    Zanuti (category Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan)
    updated in recent years, with a new European based ownership and representation. Companies portal Japan portal Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan Meiji...
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    samurai, and shared a set of values and outlooks. The early Meiji government viewed Japan as threatened by western imperialism, and one of the prime motivations...
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  • to international trade. Many Americans served as foreign government advisors in Japan during the Meiji period (1868–1912). Prior to World War II, it was...
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    Alexander von Siebold (category Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan)
    1911) was a German translator and interpreter active in Japan during the Bakumatsu period and early Meiji period. He was the eldest son of Japanologist Philipp...
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    Hermann Roesler (category Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan)
    economist, and foreign advisor to the Meiji period Empire of Japan. In 1878, Roesler was invited by the government of Japan to serve as an advisor on international...
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    Bunmei-kaika (category Meiji Restoration)
    of the peasant village. Japanese civilization Meiji Restoration Foreign settlement Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan Orientalism Haitō Edict...
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    The economic history of Japan is most studied for the spectacular social and economic growth in the 1800s after the Meiji Restoration. It became the first...
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    influence and size allowed control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period to World War II. A zaibatsu's general structure included...
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    Cornelis Johannes van Doorn (category Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan)
    a Dutch civil engineer and foreign advisor to Meiji period Japan. Cornelis Johannes van Doorn was born on 5 January 1837 in Hall (Gelderland), Netherlands...
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    when compared with Japan's successful Meiji Restoration. For the first time, regional dominance in East Asia shifted from China to Japan; the prestige of...
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    Education in the Empire of Japan was a high priority for its government, as the leadership of the early Meiji government realized the need for universal...
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    Walsh brothers (category People of Meiji-period Japan)
    Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan Ryoma Sakamoto Chōshū Five Yataro Iwasaki Kentaro Kaneko American Unitarian Association The former foreign...
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    Industrial Revolution (category 18th century in technology)
    mathematics, technology, and foreign languages in Japan (Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan). In 1871, a group of Japanese politicians known as the...
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    Kōbushō) was a cabinet-level ministry in the Daijō-kan system of government of the Meiji period Empire of Japan from 1870 to 1885. It is also sometimes...
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    from 1883 to 1886. Japan did not use foreign military advisors between 1890 and 1918, until the French military mission to Japan (1918–19), headed by...
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