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period
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Meiji restoration
Meiji restoration The term refers to both the events of 1868 that led to the "restoration" of power to the emperor and the entire period of revolutionary changes that coincided with the Meiji emperor's reign (1868-1912). The power of the Tokugawa shogunate, weakened by debt and internal div... Read more
Periodic Table of the Elements: Hydrogen
Periodic Table of the Elements: Hydrogen Periodic Table of the Elements: Hydrogen Atomic Number: 1 Atomic Symbol: H   Hydrogen Atomic Weight: 1.00794 Electron Configuration: 1 ... Read more
Meiji
Meiji , 1852-1912, reign name of the emperor of Japan from 1867 to 1912; his given name was Mutsuhito. He ascended the throne when he was 15. A year later the shogun fell, and the power that had been held by the Tokugawa military house was returned to the emperor. This was the Meiji restoration... Read more
bushido
bushido [Jap.,=way of the warrior], code of honor and conduct of the Japanese nobility. Of ancient origin, it grew out of the old feudal bond that required unwavering loyalty on the part of the vassal. It borrowed heavily from Zen Buddhism and Confucianism. In its fullest expression the code emphas... Read more
Periodic Table of the Elements: Boron
Periodic Table of the Elements: Boron Periodic Table of the Elements: Boron Atomic Number: 5 Atomic Symbol: B   Boron Atomic Weight: 10.81 Electron Configuration: 2 &middo... Read more
Periodic Table of the Elements: Carbon
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Periodic Table of the Elements: Fluorine
Periodic Table of the Elements: Fluorine Periodic Table of the Elements: Fluorine Atomic Number: 9 Atomic Symbol: F   Fluorine Atomic Weight: 18.998403 Electron Configuration: 2&... Read more
Periodic Table of the Elements: Nitrogen
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Periodic Table of the Elements: Phosphorus
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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...
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...
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...
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). □
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...

Dictionary entries related to "Meiji period"

Meiji Constitution
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Meiji Constitution (1884–89) The...modelled on the existing German form, the Meiji Constitution was gradually developed from...manhood suffrage), policy in the earlier period was usually dominated by a group of highly...
Meiji Restoration
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism Meiji Restoration. The restoration of the Japanese...national life. The restoration of power to the Meiji emperor had serious repercussions for Buddhism...Buddhism over Shintō. For a short period, Buddhism was even officially proscribed...
Meiji
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Meiji the period when Japan was ruled by the emperor Meiji Tenno (1868–1912), marked by the modernization and westernization of the country.
Modernity: East Asia
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...popularized in the sense of "modern period" by translations of European works in Meiji time. It was soon replaced by kindai...Civilization and Enlightenment: Meiji Japan (1868 – 1912) The Meiji Restoration set the stage for the...
Kokka Shintō
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...Shinto shrines, ceremonies, and education which the government administered from the early Meiji period until the end of the Second World War. The Meiji government attempted to provide a sense of national and cultural identity by restoring the...
Japanese religion
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...BUDDHISM ), but by the Heian period it developed into the religion...the feudal era in the Kamakura period, when classical Japanese court...restoration government of Emperor Meiji moved toward making State Shinto...Tokugawa era and beginning of the Meiji era were categorized as Sect...
Shintō
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism ...Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Later, in the Edo period (1603–1867), Shintō...emperor and Buddhism with the warlords. When the Meiji emperor came to power in 1868 (see Meiji Restoration ), he declared a policy of sundering...
Japan
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Kuroshio and the Tsushima Currents. During the seasonal periods of heavy rainfall and typhoons, flooding becomes...shogunate with a new regime led formally by the emperor Meiji Tenno (the MEIJI RESTORATION ). In the succeeding decades feudali
Kyōha Shintō
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...Shinto ’). A group of independent Shinto sects which began their activities in the late Tokugawa and early Meiji periods. When the government created State Shinto ( kokka shintō ), which embraced most of the Shinto shrines...
Yōmei-gaku
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...numerous followers during the Tokugawa (1600–1868) period's final decades, including figures like Ōshio Ch...and Yoshida Shōin, whose students became leaders of the Meiji Restoration of 1868.

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MEIJI UNIVERSITY CHOOSES THOMSON SCIENTIFIC'S CENTURY OF SCIENCE.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 3/3/2008; 700+ words ; ...TM) has been purchased by Meiji University in Japan, expanding...reference data covering the period from 1900 to 1944. "The purchase...Science is right in line with Meiji University's goals to provide...unparalleled historical research, Meiji University will make great strides...
Meiji University Chooses Thomson Scientific's Century of Science.
PR Newswire Europe; 3/3/2008; 700+ words ; ...TM) has been purchased by Meiji University in Japan, expanding...reference data covering the period from 1900 to 1944. The purchase...Science is right in line with Meiji University's goals to provide...unparalleled historical research, Meiji University will make great strides...
Meiji Yasuda's predecessor accused of hiding taxable income.
Newspaper article from: Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan); 5/1/2005; 700+ words ; ...authorities have charged Meiji Life Insurance Co., one of the two predecessors of Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co...income in a three-year period to March 2001 in connection...the money, which it said Meiji Life had paid to Commerz...
A.M. BEST AFFIRMS RATINGS OF MEIJI YASUDA LIFE INSURANCE.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 3/31/2009; 700+ words ; ...operating expenses. In addition, Meiji Yasuda achieved further progress...persistency ratio during the same period. Since the start of the new...fiscal year 2005, known as the "Meiji Yasuda Revitalization Plan...improvement. Through these efforts, Meiji Yasuda's profitability is...
A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company; Revises Outlook of Issuer Credit Rating to Negative.
Business Wire; 3/30/2009; 700+ words ; ...operating expenses. In addition, Meiji Yasuda achieved further progress...persistency ratio during the same period. Since the start of the new...fiscal year 2005, known as the "Meiji Yasuda Revitalization Plan...improvement. Through these efforts, Meiji Yasuda's profitability is...
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...understanding of the complex tapestry of Meiji-period life. Throughout the narrative, Keene is able to show that Meiji injected himself into social and...in 1874 (234). Also, he says, Meiji played the critical role in forcing...
FSA to order Meiji Yasuda Life to suspend business.
Newspaper article from: Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan); 2/18/2005; 700+ words ; ...FSA sources said Friday. Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance admitted...all branches for such a long period. The FSA made the decision...trouble they went through," Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance President...According to the sources, Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance salespeople...
The Gifts of Meiji POSTCARD
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 1/3/1997; ; 597 words ; ...memoirs. New Year's Day at Meiji Shrine, commissioned in 1913...World War II and the postwar period of rapid economic development...Tokyo residents fewer options. Meiji Shrine was leveled in a 1945...added an extra dimension to Meiji Shrine's popularity and helped...
MEIJI YASUDA LIFE EXECS TO QUIT OVER CLAIM NONPAYMENTS, DENIALS.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 10/24/2005; 623 words ; ...to do about other officials. Meiji Yasuda will focus on revamping...widening rift between the former Meiji Life and former Yasuda Life...compiled by outside attorneys, Meiji Life began targeting a profit...hospital, citing a one-month period in which the doctor had ordered...
Another Meiji Restoration?
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 6/24/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...this a second restoration after Meiji. But curiously, like Meiji, Japan is tilting towards the...floor, focused on the "ukiyo" period of Japanese contemporary history...century, and just before the Meiji Restoration of 1868, as one...