Introduction: The Aims of Education for Modern Japan
Part I: The Feudal Foundation of Modern Japanese Education
Education of the Samurai in Tokugawa Schools: Nisshinkan
Education of the Samurai in the West: London University and Rutgers College, 1863-1868
The Meiji Restoration: Reemergence of Tokugawa Schools, 1868-1871
Part II: The First Decade of Modern Education, 1870s: The American Model
The Gakusei: The First National Plan for Education, 1872
The Iwakura Mission: A Survey of Western Education, 1872-1873
The Modern Education of Japanese Girls: Georgetown, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, 1872
The Modern Japanese Teacher: The San Francisco Method, 1872-1873
Implementing the First National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase I, 1873-1876
Rural Resistance to Modern Education: The Japanese Peasant, 1873-1876
The Imperial University of Engineering: The Scottish Model, 1873-1882
Pestalozzi to Japan: Switzerland to New York to Tokyo, 1875-1878
Scientific Agriculture and Puritan Christianity on the Japanese Frontier: The Massachusetts Model, 1876-1877
The Philadelphia Centennial: The American Model Revisited, 1876
The Second National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase II, 1877-1879
Part III: The Second Decade of Modern Education, 1880s: Reaction against the Western Model
The Imperial Will on Education: Moral versus Science Education, 1879-1880
The Third National Plan for Education: The Reverse Course, 1880-1885
Education for the State: The German Model, 1886-1889
The Imperial Rescript on Education: Western Science and Eastern Morality for the Twentieth Century, 1890.