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'Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration' creates the man anew

Books / Reviews Jan 30, 2021

'Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration' creates the man anew

by Iain Maloney

One of the joys of reading about history is the way in which each generation interprets the past through its own perspective. This isn’t simply new facts coming to light or official documents being unsealed — rather, it’s the historian’s equivalent of “the observer ...

Drawing a 150-year story line

Commentary / Japan | japan since the Meiji Restoration Nov 26, 2018

Drawing a 150-year story line

by Tetsuya Murai

Beset by an aging, shrinking body, Japan must find the means of rebuilding its "character" if it is to survive the challenges ahead.

Reconjuring the vision of the Meiji Centennial

Commentary / Japan | japan since the Meiji Restoration Nov 19, 2018

Reconjuring the vision of the Meiji Centennial

by Ryota Murai

Japan has thus far succeeded in preserving its national character while fulfilling its growing responsibility toward the international community.

Meiji 150 as the end of an era

Commentary / Japan | japan since the Meiji Restoration Nov 13, 2018

Meiji 150 as the end of an era

by Yuichi Hosoya

When Japan was a young nation-state 150 years ago, its leaders charted a course through trial and error. Now we are in need of a new vision, identity and strategy for the next 150 years.

A contextual look at the Heisei Era

Commentary / Japan | japan since the Meiji Restoration Nov 5, 2018

A contextual look at the Heisei Era

by Taizo Miyagi

To lament the 'fall of Japan' during the Heisei Era, as some pessimists do, misses the big picture.

Mass media and democracy in prewar and postwar Japan

Commentary / Japan Oct 29, 2018

Mass media and democracy in prewar and postwar Japan

by Kazuo Komiya

Now, more than ever, the free press must avoid the perils of populist pandering and fulfill its responsibility as one of the key pillars of democracy.

Editorials Oct 23, 2018

Revisiting the Meiji Restoration, 150 years on

The process of the Meiji Restoration looks all the more relevant at a time when Japan is facing an uncertain and uncharted future.

Historical jury still out on Japan's Meiji Restoration

National / History Oct 23, 2018

Historical jury still out on Japan's Meiji Restoration

by Reiji Yoshida

On July 27, 1853, the Tokugawa shogunate was in crisis. Shogun Tokugawa Ieyoshi passed away from what today is believed to be heat exhaustion at Edo Castle in the heart of Edo, present-day Tokyo. Abe Masahiro, the top samurai bureaucrat under the shogun, had an ...

Commentary / Japan | japan since the Meiji Restoration Oct 22, 2018

Lessons from diplomatic and constitutional history

by Kaoru Iokibe

The 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration presents an opportunity to make a sweeping assessment of Japan's political and diplomatic trajectory over the ensuing years.

Old photos illuminate a Japan now 'lost'

Books Jul 28, 2018

Old photos illuminate a Japan now 'lost'

by Martin Laflamme

In "Lost Japan," Rosella Menegazzo brings talented daguerreotype photographer Felice Beato and his previously overlooked photos of daily life in Meiji Era Japan into the foreground.

For foreign nationals over 150 years ago, Kyoto’s Fushimi was end of the line

National | KANSAI PERSPECTIVE Apr 22, 2018

For foreign nationals over 150 years ago, Kyoto’s Fushimi was end of the line

by Eric Johnston

Just before reaching Chushojima Station on the Keihan Line heading into Kyoto from Osaka, or just after crossing the Uji River on the almost parallel Kintetsu train that runs between Kyoto and Nara, two towers that look old and of European design flash briefly ...

Heroism and the changing state of morality

National / History | THE LIVING PAST Feb 17, 2018

Heroism and the changing state of morality

by Michael Hoffman

Every age breeds its own morality. One era's good is another's evil. Today's virtue is tomorrow's vice, today's wisdom tomorrow's stupidity, today's sanity tomorrow's madness. For 700 years, from the late 12th to the mid-19th centuries, Japan's highest ideals were embodied in the samurai. Unflinching ...

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