The Quest for Civilization: Encounters with Dutch Jurisprudence, Political Economy, and Statistics at the Dawn of Modern Japan -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the English Edition -- Introduction -- 1 Seeking the Bridge between Edo and Meiji Japan -- 2 The Study Mission to the Netherlands of Nishi Amane and Tsuda Mamichi -- 1 The Dutch Constitution of 1848 and the Meiji Restoration -- 1 Dutch Jurisprudence and the Development of Constitutional Thought -- 2 Vissering's Legal World: Natural Law, Historical Jurisprudence, and Liberal Reform -- 3 The Dutch Constitution of 1848 and Taisei kokuho ron -- 4 The Sorai School and the Reexamination of Confucianism -- 5 Nishi Amane's "Gidai soan": A New Concept of Government -- 6 The Founding of the Meirokusha and the Birth of a New Knowledge -- 2 The Rise of Statistical Thinking in Meiji Japan -- 1 The Beginning of Statistical Studies in Japan -- 2 Fukuzawa Yukichi's Outline of a Theory of Civilization -- 3 The Intellectual World of Tsuda Mamichi's Hyoki teiko: Dutch Statistical Administration and the Leiden University Lecture Notes -- 4 Sugi Koji's Proposal for a Central Statistical Bureau and the Political Crisis of 1881 -- 3 Dutch Political Economy and Nishi Amane's Philosophical Encounter with Utilitarianism -- 1 Political Economy as the Twin Sister of Statistics -- 2 The Lectures on Political Economy and Aiseiyo no michi -- 3 Mill's Utilitarianism and the Deepening of Nishi Amane's Political Philosophy -- 4 International Law and the Quest for Civilization -- 1 International Law and the Opening of Japan -- 2 The Place of International Law in Vissering's Curriculum: Law, Civilization, Practice.

3 Transcripts of the Leiden University Lectures in Diplomatic History and the Study of International Law in the Netherlands -- 4 The Intellectual World of Vissering's Lectures on International Law -- 5 Two Views of International Law: Vissering and Wheaton -- 6 Debates in the Meiroku zasshi -- 7 Regarding Asia: Tsuda Mamichi and the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Amity -- Conclusion -- 1 Philosophy and Utilitarianism -- 2 International Law and the Vicissitudes of Foreign Policy -- 3 The Establishment of Constitutional Government -- 4 Legacy for a New Generation -- Bibliography -- Index.