Have you heard of Lafcadio Hearn? Meet the foreigners who made modern Japan

On August 27, 2008 in JapanBlogMatsuri, On the J-web

Well, the Japan Blog Matsuri for August is up on Shane’s “The Tokyo Traveler.”

There are some really great posts!

Shane’s post was particularly interesting. It was about Lafcadio Hearn’s impressions of Tokyo (<–click to read her post). Hearn lived in Japan in the late 1800s but his thoughts on Japan still ring true today.

Hearn was one of the Oyatoi Gaikokujin, foreigners hired by the Meiji government to modernise Japan. He is largely to thank for the preservation of countless “mukashibanashi” (folk tales of Japan).

Hearn on wikipedia

http://nipponstercom-swicki.eurekster.com/Lafcadio+Hearn/

http://nipponstercom-swicki.eurekster.com/O-yatoi+gaikokujin/

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