森有纪:日本驻华盛顿外交官

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John E. Van Sant
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1871 年,森有纪成为日本驻华盛顿特区的第一位外交官,主要任务是为即将到来的岩仓使节团做准备。森有典出身于萨摩藩的武士世家,曾在英国和美国生活过,这使新明治天皇政府的高级官员任命森有典担任日本驻美国最高代表这一重要职务,尽管他还很年轻--任命时只有 23 岁。尽管森喜朗有时对日本传统和岩仓使馆中较为拘谨的高级官员感到不耐烦,但他在华盛顿特区的人脉、对美国社会的了解以及娴熟的英语技能为日本代表团成员收集制度、文化和经济信息做出了巨大贡献。在 19 世纪 70 年代末和 80 年代,森在华盛顿之后的职业生涯是日本的知识分子、外交官和高级教育官员,他的职业生涯也为日本从德川幕府的崩溃发展到国际社会承认日本在工业化和帝国主义变革的世界中的大国地位做出了贡献。
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Mori Arinori: Japan’s Diplomat in Washington, D.C.
This article briefly examines the life of Mori Arinori, who in 1871 became Japan’s first resident diplomat in Washington, D.C., with the primary assignment of making preparations for the upcoming Iwakura Mission. Mori’s pedigree of being from a samurai family from Satsuma domain and his unusual background of having already lived in Britain and the United States led senior officials of the new Meiji Imperial government to name Mori to the all-important position of being Japan’s top representative to the United States despite his youth – he was only 23 years old at the time of his appointment. Notwithstanding his occasional impatience with Japanese traditions and the more reserved senior officials of the Iwakura Embassy, Mori’s connections in Washington D.C., his understanding of American society, and his skill at the English language significantly contributed to the institutional, cultural, and economic information that members of the Japanese delegation gathered. Mori’s post-Washington career as an intellectual, diplomat, and top education official in Japan in the late 1870s and 1880s also contributed to his country’s progression from the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate to the cusp of Japan’s international recognition as a major power in a world being transformed by industrialization and imperialism.
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