At the beginning of the 20th century, large-scale industrialization in Japan begun during the Meiji Restoration, a period of rapid modernization that lasted from 1868-1912, was well under way. The ...

This 1930s film captures intimate and lively moments of daily life in Japan. It begins with domestic ... Warren Buffett suggests reading a 19th century poem when stocks fall Trump unveils $5 ...

Stranger Than Heaven takes players back to the Japan of the early 20th century.

Becoming Modern: Early 20th-Century Japan through Primary Sources offers secondary teachers seven lessons that examine a critical period in Japanese and world history: the period of Japan’s ...

By Damian Flanagan There is a curious historical footnote that tends to be forgotten about the Japanese imperial expansion of ...

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This exhibition explores the social, cultural, and political changes taking place in Japan during the Meiji Restoration (1868–1912) through the work of Ogawa Kazumasa. One of Japan’s most prolific ...

In the intervening 35 years, Japan pushed industrialization and development on ... a practice that was hugely popular in Europe and the United States in the early 20th century and introduced to Asia ...

The issues over immigration dominating headlines today are not all that different from those of the earliest 20th century, when millions of people from the overcrowded European continent crossed ...