Table of Contents

One: My Appointment to Japan; Two: The First Telegraph in Japan; Three: Laying out a New Settlement; Four: Water and Light; Five: Building Iron Bridges; Six: Osaka: An Interned City; Seven: Taming the Rivers; Eight: The Gold Mines of Sado 1; Nine: The Pioneer Railway in the Far East; Ten: Maps, 1 Surveys and Engineering Education; Eleven: The New Coinage; Twelve: The Great Fire in Tokio; Thirteen: The Craze for Steamers; Fourteen: Location of the Lighthouses; Fifteen: In the Historic Port of Nagasaki 1; Sixteen: Buying a Lighthouse Tender; Seventeen: My Visit to Satsuma; Eighteen: The American Warship Oneida; Nineteen: The Purchase of the Thabor; Twenty: The Jealous Japanese; Twenty-One: The Dockyard at Yokosuka; Twenty-Two: The Expedition to Formosa; Twenty-Three: Vicissitudes; Twenty-Four: Necessity, the Mother of Invention; Twenty-Five: Building Ships; Twenty-Six: Audience of the Emperor; Twenty-Seven: The Great Embassy to the Treaty Powers; Twenty-Eight: Home Again with the Japanese in England; Twenty-Nine: Japanese Petroleum; Thirty: Women's Education in Japan; Thirty-One: The Japanese in Bad Temper; Thirty-Two: The Yokohama Harbour Scheme; Thirty-Three: Maintaining Discipline; Thirty-Four: Keeping up the Standard; Thirty-Five: The Riu Kiu Islands; Thirty-Six: Personal Judgements

About the Author

Richard Henry Brunton