Building Japan's First Railways
Click here for a PDF version of "Building Japan's First Railways: How Western and Japanese Cultures Interacted while Conducting Technology Transfer in the 19th Century," excerpted from Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914: Engineering Triumphs That Transformed Meiji-era Japan by Dan Free, Tuttle Publishing, ISBN 978-4-8053-1006-9, www.tuttlepublishing.com, 1-800-526-2778.
For background information on this time period, please see James Huffman's essay The Meiji Restoration Era, 1868-1889. Other related photos and prints are: Yokohama and Yards, Yokohama Pavilion, River Levee, Map of Railway Lines in Central Japan, 1885, Transportation in Meiji Japan, and Yorkshire Tank at Shimbashi.
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