Iwakura Mission tours the West
1871–1873 · Event
Half the new government's leadership spends twenty-one months touring American and European factories, parliaments, schools and shipyards to learn how the modern world works. They come home convinced Japan must industrialise first and renegotiate the treaties later — the blueprint for the Meiji state.
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