• The foreign employees in Meiji Japan, known in Japanese as O-yatoi Gaikokujin (Kyūjitai: 御雇い外國人, Shinjitai: 御雇い外国人, "hired foreigners"), were hired by...
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    Confucian or medical doctor. Foreign-born people who served samurai as oyatoi gaikokujin, not Japanese-style soldiers. French military mission to Japan (1867–68)...
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    Prussian Preußische Kriegsakademie, with German officers hired as Oyatoi gaikokujin to provide training. The most prominent of these instructors was Major...
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    Meiji era, many senior officers of the Kannai trading companies, oyatoi gaikokujin and the diplomatic representatives of other trading nations established...
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  • Office) for Hokkaidō. The Kaitakushi recruited many foreign advisors (oyatoi gaikokujin) to help modernize the economy and in 1874 began recruiting ex-samurai...
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    Kokugakuin University). Josiah Conder (1852–1920), a British architect and oyatoi gaikokujin. Ōkuma Shigenobu (1838–1922), the 8th (1898) and 17th (1914–1916)...
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    2014). "Verbeck of Japan: Guido F. Verbeck as Pioneer Missionary, Oyatoi Gaikokujin, and "Foreign Hero". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal=...
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  • are retained; In 1879–1880, a German musician and foreign advisor (Oyatoi gaikokujin) adapted the melody using Western style harmonies. The version developed...
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    10–12 Russell; London; Kingdom, WC1B 5EH United. "Public Seminar – Oyatoi-Gaikokujin and the Modernisation of Japan". Japan 400. Retrieved January 21,...
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    painting to students at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy as an oyatoi gaikokujin. He also sold illustrations to Japanese newspapers, and issued an...
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    he ended up spending 27 years in Japan, the longest of any of the Oyatoi gaikokujin advisors. In 1881, he married a Japanese woman, Toda Hanako, and had...
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    for economic development by the Meiji government, which hired Dutch oyatoi gaikokujin civil engineer Anthonie Rouwenhorst Mulder (1848–1901) to redesign...
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    center. Makomanai means rear river in the Ainu language. Edwin Dun, an Oyatoi gaikokujin, began development of Makomanai in the 1870s with a pioneer stock...
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    Secretary of Agriculture under President Ulysses S. Grant, became an oyatoi gaikokujin and was appointed as a special advisor to the commission. Construction...
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    (2014-07-11). "VERBECK OF JAPAN: GUIDO F. VERBECK AS PIONEER MISSIONARY, OYATOI GAIKOKUJIN, AND "FOREIGN HERO"" (PDF). University of Pittsburgh: 439. {{cite...
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    science, mathematics, technology, and foreign languages in Japan (Oyatoi gaikokujin). The government also built railroads, improved road, and inaugurated...
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    process. These men were referred to by the Japanese government as oyatoi gaikokujin or "hired foreigners". Seeking a model agricultural college, Mori...
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    OCLC 40410662.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) 東京国立博物館 -トーハク-. "Oyatoi Gaikokujin - Antonio Fontanesi and Vincenzo Ragusa". www.tnm.jp. Retrieved 2021-09-23...
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    patients. 2009 flu pandemic in Japan Aging of Japan Erwin Bälz—an oyatoi gaikokujin and cofounder of modern medicine in Japan Health care compared—tabular...
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    College, Cambridge in 1899. Returning to Japan at the same year as an oyatoi gaikokujin, he received a post as an instructor in English language and English...
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    to work in Japan as advisors to the new government as so-called "oyatoi gaikokujin" (お雇い外国人, "hired foreigners") and contributed to the modernization...
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    the day after Morel, from acute nervous or respiratory disease. Oyatoi gaikokujin, hired foreigners in Japan Aoki, Eiichi (1994). "Dawn of Japanese...
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    the Meiji era, Pag. 71-102, edited by Bert Edstrom, 2002 Notable Oyatoi gaikokujin, by Akashi Shoten ISBN 9784750331508, ISBN 4750331503 Historical records...
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    1878. Janes returned to Japan to teach again from 1893 to 1899 as an oyatoi gaikokujin. Andersen, Gerald H. Biographical Directory of Christian Missions...
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    (2014-07-11). VERBECK OF JAPAN: GUIDO F. VERBECK AS PIONEER MISSIONARY, OYATOI GAIKOKUJIN, AND "FOREIGN HERO" (PDF) (Thesis). University of Pittsburgh. p. 439...
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    cemeteries in Japan Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art in Genoa Oyatoi gaikokujin Antonio Fontanesi Vincenzo Ragusa "An Italian who came to Japan to...
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    certain impact on how the planners put their theories and practice. Oyatoi-gaikokujin (foreign experts) were also used as advisors. Elements of Western...
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  • Korekiyo as an assistant. In August 1872 he was given a position as an Oyatoi in the Japanese Ministry of Finance as a financial advisor, which aspects...
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    Manabu Takechi. Tokyo: Hitachi, 1995. Kanai, Madoka. 'お雇い外国人ー人文科学' (Oyatoi-gaikokujin - Jinbunkagaku). Untranslated. Tokyo: Kashima Shuppan, 1976. Ludwig...
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    9 December 2023. Shun'ichi, Takayanagi; Noboru, Umetani (1966). "Oyatoi gaikokujin Meiji Nihon no wakiyaku tachi, (Foreign Employees and Their Role in...
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