National / History Mar 7, 2021
The founding father of Japanese seismology
by Roger Pulvers
Aikitsu Tanakadate was a leading light in Japan's early research into earthquakes, and urged the government to get involved in damage control measures.
Books / Reviews Jan 19, 2013
Meiji Japanese who sought to improve China
by Florian Coulmas
ASIA FOR THE ASIANS: China in the Lives of Five Meiji Japanese, by Paula S. Harrell. Merwin Asia, 2012, 407 pp., $35 (paperback) The radical makeover Japan prescribed itself in the course of the Meiji reforms, driven by entirely justified fear of Western domination, fundamentally ...