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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Modern Japanese History"”.
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Imperial dilemma : the Japanese intervention in Siberia, 1918-1922.
… from without and 'Taisho democracy' from within, Japanese leaders tried alternatives, notably non-territorial penetration, to the traditional imperial path set forth by the Meiji foundationists. Domestically, Prime Minister Hara Takashi established, for the first time in modern Japanese history, …
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Powering the Nation: A Conceptual History of "National Power" and the "Population Problem" in Modern Japan (1870s-2000s)
… *Asahi Shimbun* reported about Okada Takahirō, a Japanese man in his mid-50s, who ran for a third term as a mayor of Ōno, a small town in central Japan. Okada campaigned with the idea of tackling the town’s depopulation, which represented a result of decline in industrial productivity and a …
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Imperial designs: fashion, cosmetics, and cultural identity in Japan, 1931-1943
… analyzes how women and gender shaped Japanese imperial culture at home by examining fashion and cosmetics in the 1930s and 1940s. In contrast to conventional narratives of Japanese imperial history that posit Japan’s nation- and empire-building projects as separate entities, one …
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In the Name of the Realm: The Loyal Service of House Hosokawa in Sixteenth-Century Japan
… of the considerable time required to master the Japanese language (not to mention premodern Japanese epistolary style). This dissertation sheds light on the Age of Unification (roughly 1565–1600), during which three successive warlords—the so-called “unifiers” Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582), Toyotomi …