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COMPILED AND EDITED by Nobuhiro Miyoshi
UNIVERSITY OF HIROSHIMA
KEY FEATURE(S) This is the complete archive of Britain’s ‘lost’ great educationalist, Japan interpreter, pioneer of cross-cultural politics and founding principal of Japan’s Imperial College of
Engineering.
At the age of 24 Henry Dyer (1848-1918) was appointed Principal of the Imperial College of Engineering (later to become part of Tokyo University) and remained in Japan for nine years. On his departure... |
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Nobuhiro Miyoshi
UNIVERSITY OF HIROSHIMA
KEY FEATURE(S) In the 1870s Scottish engineer Henry Dyer, contributed greatly to the success of the New Japan’s modernization programme by establishing the country’s first college of engineering (today part of Tokyo University) Remarkably, this is the first time his story has been told in English
Ignored in Britain and forgotten for generations in Japan, Henry Dyer (1848-1918) engineer, educationalist and author of two monumental volumes on Japan at the turn of the twentieth century [see T... |
