History Society and Culture Japan

This category is for sites related to the history of Japan.

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• - Site on relations between France and Japan in 1867-1869.
  
• - Essay on Hirohito and the Japanese government coming to grips with Japan's decision to go to war and their post-war relationship with the United States.
  
• - Provides full-text access to the ERIC Digest of this name which looks at Japanese textbooks and how they cover Japanese history from the early 20th Century.
  
• - Overview written primarily for children, but useful for anyone. Includes FAQ on figures and events from feudal times to the present.
  
• - Short college essay on Fukuzawa, who was one of the Meiji Era's most influential figures.
  
• - Overview of history and discovery of Sakhalin Island (Karafuto), one of the territories still disputed between Japan and Russia.
  
• - History of Japan. Overview, and ancient to modern Japan
  
• - Seeks to clarify the contributions and limitations of Japanese business diplomacy. Argues that Japanese business diplomacy, was insufficiently influential to prevent political and military conflict.
  
• - Bank of Japan virtual museum exhibit of old currency in Japan, as well as money used during Japan's colonial empire.
  
• - Provides little known history of the start of motorized transportation in Japan.
  
• - Provides a revisionist view of topics on 20th century Japanese history and military, reparations, comfort women, and their movement to remove war crime references in textbooks.
  
• - A scholarly journal published four times a year to inform readers of up-to-date information on various issues on Japanese war responsibility.
  
• - Chronicles the development of Japanese stamps from 1929.
  
• - Outlines trends in the development of Japan's commercial shipping prior to World War I. Argues that the promotion of the industry was undertaken primarily not for commercial, but for strategic imperialist reasons.
  
• - Full text in English of Japan's former constitution, from Hanover University.
  
• - Describes postwar American involvement in remodeling Japanese society, along with pictures of several posters used for information and propaganda.
  
• - A senior citizen recalls the history of the 50 yen coin in the 1950's when it had no hole in the center.
  
• - Sources, data, tables, texts related to the history of Euro-Japanese interchange, from Prof. Wolfgang Michel-Zaitsu.
  
• - Brief outline of historical periods from the Jomon Period to the present.
  
• - Explains historical development of the Japanese language and diversity of its gender specific constructs and their usage.
  
• - Genealogical information of the descendants of the Ogasawara clan from 711 BC to the present.
  
• - Provides biographical information, pictures, genealogical tables, and legal documents on the current status of the imperial family.
  
• - Includes exhibits of Japanese philately (stamp-collecting), dictionary of Japanese philatelic terms, resources and links.
  
• - Shows populations in major Japanese cities every decade from 1890.
  
• - Examines a new debate on Hirohito and his role in WWII and history, and as at once a product and an active agent of Japan's modern historical process.
  
• - Chronological listing of railroads from 1872 to 1907 (the first line, redcap, women employed, and horsedrawn). A few illustrations, including a print of an 1870s train.
  
• - Brief notes on the role played by the United States during the Allied occupation of Japan from September 1945 through 1952.
  
• - Essay by a Kyoto University professor attacking Japanese nationalism and asserting that the Diaoyutai islands are rightfully China's.
  
• - From the Jomon period to 1987.
  
• - Offers quick conversion from the traditional Japanese calendar system from 1868 to the Gregorian calendar.
  
• - Contains pictures of former vessels in the wartime navy, as well as information on their guns, torpedoes, sensors, names, and officers.
  
• - Shows a collection of old Japanese coins from 1948 to 1964, as well as specially issued coins up to the present.
  
• - Includes an encyclopedia, introduction to Japanese history, and booklists.
  
• - Gives history and historical references to the making and use of incense in Japan, as well as its preparation and scents.
  
• - List and description of several Meiji Era Japanese inventors, with descriptions of in their creations and biographies.
  
• - Explores the relationship between rural villages and Japan's colonies during the wartime period, with reference to the emigration of Japanese farmers to Manchuria to identify some of the key characteristics of Japanese emigration during this period and di
  
• - Discusses the influences that led to the economic policies pursued in the interwar period.
  
• - Overview and introduction to attractions, temples and shrines, brief guide of major cities, history, nuclear radiation and environmental issues.
  
• - Essay on the introduction of square dancing to the people of Nagasaki in 1946 and its increase of social mixing between sexes and cultures.
  
  

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