Download or read book The Iwakura Mission in America and Europe written by Ian Nish and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the top ministerial team sent in 1872 by the new Meiji government to the West in order to idenitify, classify and assess Western technology and culture, and to open a dialogue to review the so-called 'unequal treaties'.