For Japan, 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration; the name given to the events of 1868, which saw the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate (or bakufu) and the creation of a new ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Princeton University History Professor Linda Colley discussed the geopolitical and economic effects of Japanese modernization following the Meiji ...
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What caused the fall of the samurai?
The fall of the samurai was driven by more than just battlefield defeat—it was the product of Japan’s rapid transformation in ...
Inspired by the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research forum on "Japan Since the Meiji Restoration," political scientist Ryota Murai reflects on the Japanese government's 1968 celebration of the Meiji ...
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This is the part of the Meiji Restoration textbooks avoid
The Meiji Restoration is often described as “peaceful,” but the reality was a string of assassinations, riots, political murders, and gang violence that textbooks politely skip. Samurai faked ...
The year 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of Meiji Restoration in Japan. Initiated in 1868, Meiji Restoration was a top-down capitalism reform, which not only made Japan the first country in Asia to ...
IN January 1868 some young samurai and their merchant sympathisers overthrew Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate and with it seven centuries of feudal rule. The so-called Meiji restoration was the cue for such ...
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