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The Iwakura Mission: Japan's Transformative Global Journey

The Iwakura Mission: Japan's Transformative Global Journey

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In 1871, just three years after the Meiji Restoration, Japan dispatched a diplomatic mission of nearly 50 officials, led by Iwakura Tomomi, on a 21-month voyage around the world. The Iwakura Mission, as it became known, traveled to the United States and Europe to renegotiate unequal treaties and, more importantly, to study Western institutions, technology, and culture. This episode follows the mission's journey from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., then across the Atlantic to London, Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg, and finally by rail through Siberia back to Japan. We explore how delegates like Kido Takayoshi, Ōkubo Toshimichi, and Itō Hirobumi gathered intelligence on everything from postal systems and factories to constitutions and navies. The mission's failure to revise treaties had profound consequences, but its success in collecting information shaped Japan's rapid modernization. We also examine the mission's internal conflicts, the role of female delegate Tsuda Umeko, and the lasting impact on Japan's education, industry, and government. This is the story of how a small island nation sent its brightest minds abroad to learn—and returned to build a superpower. #IwakuraMission #MeijiRestoration #IwakuraTomomi #KidoTakayoshi #ŌkuboToshimichi #ItōHirobumi #TsudaUmeko #JapanModernization #UnequalTreaties #Rangaku #BunmeiKaika #FukuzawaYukichi #TomomiIwakura #MeijiJapan #WorldTour #DiplomaticMission #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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