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Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan

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2.272 million, or 33.7 percent of the national annual budget. The salary system was equivalent to the British India, for instance, the chief engineer of the British India's Public Works was paid 2,500 Rs/month which was almost same as 1,000 Yen, salary of Thomas William Kinder, superintendent of the
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The total number is over 2,000, probably reaches 3,000 (with thousands more in the private sector). Until 1899, more than 800 hired foreign experts continued to be employed by the government, and many others were employed privately. Their occupation varied, ranging from high salaried government
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Despite the value they provided in the modernization of Japan, the Japanese government did not consider it prudent for them to settle in Japan permanently. After the contract terminated, most of them returned to their country except some, like
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and advice on systems and cultural ways. Therefore, young Japanese officers gradually took over the post of the O-yatoi after they completed training and education at the
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As the Public Works hired almost 40% of the total number of the O-yatois, the main goal in hiring the O-yatois was to obtain
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came to an end in Japan. Nevertheless, similar employment of foreigners persists in Japan, particularly within the national
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The O-yatois were highly paid; in 1874, they numbered 520 men, at which time their salaries came to
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A Table of Salary of D.P.W. of the British India, The Engineer, January 29, 1869.
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advisors, college professors and instructor, to ordinary salaried technicians.
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Tokyo University of Education 120th Anniversary Memorial Tokyo University Show
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and municipalities for their specialized knowledge and skill to assist in the
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James Curtis Hepburn, Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary, 1873.
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as diplomatic advisor, Dutch naval engineer Hendrik Hardes for
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The impact of the O-Yatoi Gaikokujin during the Meiji Era
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Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan
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Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji period Japan
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Willem Johan Cornelis, Ridder Huijssen van Kattendijke
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Along the process of the opening of the country, the
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Hardy's Case, The Japan Weekly Mail, January 4 1875.
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Index

Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji period Japan
Japanese
Kyƫjitai
Shinjitai
Japanese government
modernization
Meiji period
gaikokujin
Tokugawa Shogunate
Philipp Franz von Siebold
Nagasaki Arsenal
Willem Johan Cornelis, Ridder Huijssen van Kattendijke
Nagasaki Naval Training Center
François Léonce Verny
Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Richard Henry Brunton
transfers of technology
Imperial College, Tokyo
Imperial College of Engineering
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Osaka Mint
Josiah Conder
William Kinninmond Burton
extraterritoriality
education
professional sports
German Empire
Louis Boehmer
United States
William Smith Clark

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