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The massive Anpo protests against revision of the America–Japan Security Treaty are the largest protests in Japan's modern history, and force the resignation of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and the cancellation of a planned visit by US president Dwight D. Eisenhower. 1964: 1 October
The leaders of the Meiji government desired Japan to become a modern nation-state that could stand ... 1926 to 1989 is the longest in recorded Japanese history. ...
This volume will cover Japan before the seventeenth century. [2] Early Modern Japan in Asia and the World, c.1580–1877 (edited by David L. Howell). [3] This volume covers the Edo period. The Modern Japanese Nation and Empire, c.1868 to the Twenty-First Century (edited by Laura Hein). [4]
The Meiji era (明治時代, Meiji jidai, [meꜜː(d)ʑi] ⓘ) was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. [1] The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization by Western powers to the new paradigm of a modern, industrialized nation state and emergent ...
The historiography of Japan (日本史学史 Nihon shigakushi) is the study of methods and hypotheses formulated in the study and literature of the history of Japan.. The earliest work of Japanese history is attributed to Prince Shōtoku, who is said to have written the Tennōki and the Kokki in 620 CE.
The Making of Modern Japan is the last work by American author Marius Jansen, who died one week after the book was published. [1] The book details the history of Japan from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 up until 2000, [2] analysing the changes in Japan's economic policies, education, military, and both high and low culture.
Early Modern Japanese (近世日本語, kinsei nihongo) was the stage of the Japanese language after Middle Japanese and before Modern Japanese. [1] It is a period of transition that shed many of the characteristics that Middle Japanese had retained during the language's development from Old Japanese, thus becoming intelligible to modern Japanese.
In Japanese military history, the modernization of the Japanese army and navy during the Meiji period (1868–1912) and until the Mukden Incident (1931) was carried out by the newly founded national government, a military leadership that was only responsible to the Emperor, and with the help of France, Britain, and later Germany.