Japanese students in the United Kingdom

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The first Japanese students in the United Kingdom were sent in the nineteenth century by the Chōshū and Satsuma domains, then the Bakufu (Shogunate). Later many studied at Cambridge University and a smaller number at Oxford University until the end of the Meiji era. The reason for sending them was to catch up with the West by modernizing Japan. Since the 1980s, Japanese students in the United Kingdom have become common thanks to cheaper air travel.

Contents 1 Chōshū Five (1863) 2 Satsuma students (1865) 3 Bakufu students (1866) 4 Students in the Meiji era 4.1 Cambridge University 4.2 Oxford University 4.3 Naval trainees 5 After World War II 6 See also 7 References

[edit] Chōshū Five (1863)

At University College London supervised by Professor Alexander William Williamson

• Ito Shunsuke (later Ito Hirobumi)
• Inoue Monta (later Inoue Kaoru)
• Nomura Yakichi (later Inoue Masaru)
• Endo Kinsuke
• Yamao Yozo

[edit] Satsuma students (1865)

15 Satsuma students, one from Tosa and one from Nagasaki. Two supervisors (ometsuke). This group also studied at University College London which was open to students of all religions.

• Mori Arinori
• Godai Tomoatsu
• Terashima Munenori
• Sameshima Naonobu
• Nagasawa Kanae

and others

[edit] Bakufu students (1866)

Supervisors:

• Kawaji Taro
• Nakamura Keisuke

Students: (12)

• Naruse Jogoro
• Toyama Sutehachi,
• Mitsukuri Keigo
• Fukuzawa 　Einosuke (no relation of Fukuzawa Yukichi!)
• Hayashi Tozaburo (later Hayashi Tadasu)
• Ito Shonosuke
• Okukawa Ichiro
• Yasui Shinpachiro
• Mitsukuri Dairoku (later Kikuchi Dairoku)
• Ichikawa Morisaburo
• Sugi Tokujiro
• Iwasa Genji

[edit] Students in the Meiji era

[edit] Cambridge University

• Kikuchi Dairoku
• Suematsu Kencho
• Inagaki Manjiro
• Okura Kishichiro
• Tanaka Ginnosuke

[edit] Oxford University

• Hachisuka Mochiaki
• Nanjo Bunyu - professor of Sanskrit at Tokyo University
• Takakusu Junjiro

[edit] Naval trainees

• Togo Heihachiro

[edit] After World War II

• Katsuhiko Oku, Oxford
• Hisashi Owada, Cambridge

[edit] See also

• Anglo-Japanese relations

[edit] References

• Cobbing, Andrew. The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain. RoutledgeCurzon, London, 1998. ISBN 1-873410-81-6
• The Satsuma Students in Britain: Japan's Early Search for the Essence of the West by Andrew Cobbing, Curzon Press, 2000, ISBN 1-873410-97-2
• Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan, by Noboru Koyama, translated by Ian Ruxton [1], (Lulu Press, September 2004, ISBN 1-4116-1256-6).