The Quest for Civilization: Encounters with Dutch Jurisprudence, Political Economy, and Statistics at the Dawn of Modern Japan

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface to the English Edition

Introduction

1 Seeking the Bridge between Edo and Meiji Japan

2 The Study Mission to the Netherlands of Nishi Amane and Tsuda Mamichi

1 The Dutch Constitution of 1848 and the Meiji Restoration

1 Dutch Jurisprudence and the Development of Constitutional Thought

2 Vissering’s Legal World: Natural Law, Historical Jurisprudence, and Liberal Reform

3 The Dutch Constitution of 1848 and Taisei kokuho ron

4 The Sorai School and the Reexamination of Confucianism

5 Nishi Amane’s “Gidai soan”: A New Concept of Government

6 The Founding of the Meirokusha and the Birth of a New Knowledge

2 The Rise of Statistical Thinking in Meiji Japan

1 The Beginning of Statistical Studies in Japan

2 Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Outline of a Theory of Civilization

3 The Intellectual World of Tsuda Mamichi’s Hyoki teiko: Dutch Statistical Administration and the Leiden University Lecture Notes

4 Sugi Koji’s Proposal for a Central Statistical Bureau and the Political Crisis of 1881

3 Dutch Political Economy and Nishi Amane’s Philosophical Encounter with Utilitarianism

1 Political Economy as the Twin Sister of Statistics

2 The Lectures on Political Economy and Aiseiyo no michi

3 Mill’s Utilitarianism and the Deepening of Nishi Amane’s Political Philosophy

4 International Law and the Quest for Civilization

1 International Law and the Opening of Japan

2 The Place of International Law in Vissering’s Curriculum: Law, Civilization, Practice

3 Transcripts of the Leiden University Lectures in Diplomatic History and the Study of International Law in the Netherlands

4 The Intellectual World of Vissering’s Lectures on International Law

5 Two Views of International Law: Vissering and Wheaton

6 Debates in the Meiroku zasshi

7 Regarding Asia: Tsuda Mamichi and the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Amity

Conclusion

1 Philosophy and Utilitarianism

2 International Law and the Vicissitudes of Foreign Policy

3 The Establishment of Constitutional Government

4 Legacy for a New Generation

Bibliography

Index