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 Choshu 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.
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
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
Bakufu students (1866)
Supervisors:
- Kawaji Taro
- Nakamura Keisuke
- 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
Students in the Meiji era
Cambridge University
Oxford University
- Hachisuka Mochiaki
- Nanjo Bunyu - professor of Sanscrit at Tokyo University
- Takakusu Junjiro
Naval trainees
After World War II
- Hisashi Owada, Cambridge
See also
References
- The Satsuma Students in Britain: Japan's Early Search for the Essence of the West by Andrew Cobbing, Curzon Press, 2000, ISBN 1873410972
- [Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan], by Noboru Koyama, translated by Ian Ruxton [link], ([Lulu Press], September 2004, ISBN 1411612566).
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