Haruko Wakabayashi is an associate teaching professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers-New Brunswick. She is the author of The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism.Fernanda Perrone is the Archivist and Head of the Exhibitions Program and Curator of the William Elliot Griffis Collection, Special Collections/University Archives at Rutgers University. She is the co-author of The Douglass Century: The Transformation of the Women’s College at Rutgers (Rutgers University Press).

"By tracing the lives of key figures and formative themes in unprecedented detail, Rutgers Meets Japan demonstrates the singular role Rutgers played in the formative years of Japanese modernization, and by extension its importance in developing Japan–U.S. relations more broadly. The book stands alone, providing its own timely and unique contribution to our knowledge of Japan–U.S. relations." - Andrew Cobbing, associate professor of history, University of Nottingham "Based on careful archival research, this book presents a compelling picture of a transpacific network between the U.S. and Japan. Among the signal contributions of this work is its engaging and poignant discussion of the experiences of both Japanese students on the Eastern Seaboard and American missionaries in Japan in the decades after the opening of the Japanese treaty ports." - Steven J. Ericson, author of The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan

• Note on Japanese Names and Terms Introduction Part I: The Bakumatsu Network and the First Japanese Students1 Guido F. Verbeck: Missionary, Teacher and Advisor in Bakumatsu-Meiji JapanJames M. Hommes2 Envisioning a New Japan: Matsudaira Shungaku, Yokoi Shōnan, and the Bakumatsu Network at the Dawn of the Rutgers-Japan ConnectionHaruko Wakabayashi with Fuji Takagi3 Katsu Kaishū as a Shadow Founder of the Japanese Ryūgakusei Community in New Brunswick: Katsu Koroku, Takagi Saburō, and Tomita TetsunosukeNoriko Ochiai and Yukako Otori Part II: The Japanese Students in New Brunswick and Beyond4 The Japanese Students in New Brunswick and Beyond: A Comparative Study of New Brunswick and Boston as a Hub for Japanese RyūgakuseiSatoshi Shiozaki5 Rutgers in the Nineteenth CenturyFernanda Perrone6 Rev. Edward T. Corwin and the Japanese Students at the Hillsborough Reformed Church at MillstoneHaruko Wakabayashi Part III: The American Teachers in Japan: Griffis, Wyckoff, and Clark 7 "Well of Blessing": Griffis in FukuiFernanda Perrone8 Edward Warren Clark in Shizuoka 1871-1873A. Hamish Ion9 Fukui's Role in the Career of William Elliot Griffis Joseph M. Henning Part IV: The Rutgers-Japan Network in Action: The Iwakura Mission and Educational Reform in Japan10 The Satsuma-Rutgers Connection During the Early Meiji EraJohn E. Van Sant11 The Rutgers Network and the Iwakura Mission: Guido F. Verbeck and Hatakeyama YoshinariHaruko Wakabayashi12 David Murray's Influence on Japanese EducationBenjamin Duke / Edited by Fernanda Perrone Part V: Reformed Church Missionaries and Early Christian Education13 James H. Ballagh: The First Rutgers Graduate in JapanKōji Nakajima14 Rutgers Missionaries and Meiji GakuinNaoto Tsuji15 The Contributions of Rutgers and the Reformed Church in America to Women's Education in Modern JapanRui KohiyamaEpilogue—Griffis's Legacies: Rutgers and FukuiRyuhei HosoyaAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIndex

Haruko Wakabayashi is an associate teaching professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers-New Brunswick. She is the author of The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism.Fernanda Perrone is the Archivist and Head of the Exhibitions Program and Curator of the William Elliot Griffis Collection, Special Collections/University Archives at Rutgers University. She is the co-author of The Douglass Century: The Transformation of the Women’s College at Rutgers (Rutgers University Press).

"By tracing the lives of key figures and formative themes in unprecedented detail, Rutgers Meets Japan demonstrates the singular role Rutgers played in the formative years of Japanese modernization, and by extension its importance in developing Japan–U.S. relations more broadly. The book stands alone, providing its own timely and unique contribution to our knowledge of Japan–U.S. relations." - Andrew Cobbing, associate professor of history, University of Nottingham "Based on careful archival research, this book presents a compelling picture of a transpacific network between the U.S. and Japan. Among the signal contributions of this work is its engaging and poignant discussion of the experiences of both Japanese students on the Eastern Seaboard and American missionaries in Japan in the decades after the opening of the Japanese treaty ports." - Steven J. Ericson, author of The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan

• Note on Japanese Names and Terms Introduction Part I: The Bakumatsu Network and the First Japanese Students1 Guido F. Verbeck: Missionary, Teacher and Advisor in Bakumatsu-Meiji JapanJames M. Hommes2 Envisioning a New Japan: Matsudaira Shungaku, Yokoi Shōnan, and the Bakumatsu Network at the Dawn of the Rutgers-Japan ConnectionHaruko Wakabayashi with Fuji Takagi3 Katsu Kaishū as a Shadow Founder of the Japanese Ryūgakusei Community in New Brunswick: Katsu Koroku, Takagi Saburō, and Tomita TetsunosukeNoriko Ochiai and Yukako Otori Part II: The Japanese Students in New Brunswick and Beyond4 The Japanese Students in New Brunswick and Beyond: A Comparative Study of New Brunswick and Boston as a Hub for Japanese RyūgakuseiSatoshi Shiozaki5 Rutgers in the Nineteenth CenturyFernanda Perrone6 Rev. Edward T. Corwin and the Japanese Students at the Hillsborough Reformed Church at MillstoneHaruko Wakabayashi Part III: The American Teachers in Japan: Griffis, Wyckoff, and Clark 7 "Well of Blessing": Griffis in FukuiFernanda Perrone8 Edward Warren Clark in Shizuoka 1871-1873A. Hamish Ion9 Fukui's Role in the Career of William Elliot Griffis Joseph M. Henning Part IV: The Rutgers-Japan Network in Action: The Iwakura Mission and Educational Reform in Japan10 The Satsuma-Rutgers Connection During the Early Meiji EraJohn E. Van Sant11 The Rutgers Network and the Iwakura Mission: Guido F. Verbeck and Hatakeyama YoshinariHaruko Wakabayashi12 David Murray's Influence on Japanese EducationBenjamin Duke / Edited by Fernanda Perrone Part V: Reformed Church Missionaries and Early Christian Education13 James H. Ballagh: The First Rutgers Graduate in JapanKōji Nakajima14 Rutgers Missionaries and Meiji GakuinNaoto Tsuji15 The Contributions of Rutgers and the Reformed Church in America to Women's Education in Modern JapanRui KohiyamaEpilogue—Griffis's Legacies: Rutgers and FukuiRyuhei HosoyaAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIndex