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Meiji Restoration
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...1868) shogun and elevated Emperor Meiji (Mutsuhito, 1852 – 1912...Viewed expansively, however, the Meiji Restoration was more than a mere...transformation, achieved during the Meiji period (1868 – 1912), that...
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Meiji restoration
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Meiji restoration The term refers to...to the emperor and the entire period of revolutionary changes that coincided with the Meiji emperor's reign (1868-1912...administration was created. The new Meiji government moved quickly to discard...
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Meiji
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Russo-Japanese War (1904-5). When the Meiji period ended in 1912, Japan was a world power. Bibliography...1913, repr. 1968); W. G. Beasley, The Meiji Restoration (1972); P. Akamatsu, Meiji, 1868 (tr. 1972); D. Keene, Emperor...
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Shigenobu Okuma
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...in moderate opposition to the Meiji oligarchy. Beginning with the...liberal journals of the late Meiji and early Taisho periods, he commented frequently, and...Pyle, The New Generation in Meiji Japan (1969). □
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Japan
Encyclopedia entry from: World Press Encyclopedia
...the modernizing reforms of the Meiji Restoration (1868-1912...1868 revolution known as the Meiji Restoration, the transitional period between the arrival of American...of reliability). Once the Meiji Restoration was accomplished...
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Shinto
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...Shinto has undergone significant periods of development throughout the...to Japan ’ s Jomon period (c. 11,000-400 BCE), it was during the Yayoi period (c. 400 BCE – 250...reached its peak during the Meiji period (1868-1912) and...x201D; in the words of the Meiji ...
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genro
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...collective leadership in Japan from the end of the Meiji period until c.1932. After the Meiji restoration (1868), Westernizers from the...or elder statesmen, came into use in this period. For two decades this small group provided stable...
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Hirohito
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...based mainly on research in the primary Japanese sources of the period, is that Hirohito personally opposed armed conflict with the...civil and military prerogatives ascribed to the emperor by the Meiji Constitution of 1889—itself a confused amalgam of...
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Mutsuhito
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Mutsuhito Mutsuhito (also known as Meiji Tenno; 1852-1912) was a Japanese emperor, who became the...Mutsuhito ascended to the throne the next year after the proper period of mourning, and his coronation in 1868 coincided with the restoration...
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Soseki Natsume
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...greatest Japanese novelists of the modern period. In his fiction and essays he displays...fortunes, however, declined after the Meiji restoration of 1868. An unhappy childhood, including a period spent with foster parents, and the realization...
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