Japanese students in the United Kingdom
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The first Japanese students in the United Kingdom arrived in the nineteenth century, sent to study at University College London by the Chōshū 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 period. 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.
Chōshū Five (1863)
At University College London supervised by Professor Alexander William Williamson
- Shunsuke Ito (later Hirobumi Ito)
- Monta Inoue (later Kaoru Inoue)
- Yakichi Nomura (later Masaru Inoue)
- Kinsuke Endo
- Yozo Yamao
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
- Yoshida Kiyonari
- Nomura Fumio
- Ishimaru Torogoro
- Mawatari Hachiro
and others
Bakufu students (1866)
Supervisors:
Students: (12)
- 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 Sanskrit at Tokyo University
- Takakusu Junjiro
Other
After World War II
- Katsuhiko Oku, Oxford
- Hisashi Owada, Cambridge
- Hirotaro Yoshikawa, Birmingham
- Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan, Oxford
See also
- Rikkyo School in England
- Teikyo School United Kingdom
- Gyosei International School UK (closed)
- Gyosei International College in the U.K. (closed)
- Japanese community in the United Kingdom
- Japan–United Kingdom relations
References
- Cobbing, Andrew. The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain. RoutledgeCurzon, London, 1998. ISBN 1-873410-81-6
- Cobbing, Andrew. The Satsuma Students in Britain: Japan's Early Search for the Essence of the West. Curzon Press, 2000. ISBN 1-873410-97-2
- Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan, by Noboru Koyama, translated by Ian Ruxton [1], (Lulu Press, September 2004, ISBN 1-4116-1256-6).
- Gardiner, Michael. At the Edge of Empire: The Life of Thomas B. Glover. Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2007. ISBN 1-84158-544-0