January 3rd and 4th have always been days marked by notable events across the globe.Moving back to the 19th century, January ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Social mobility refers to the movement of individuals from one socio-economic strata to another, followed by a change in their social status. In today’s world, social mobility is largely driven by ...

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 ...

The sesquicentennial of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, which the government marked with a commemorative ceremony in Tokyo on Tuesday, gives us an opportunity to revisit the process of modernization ...