From the Meiji Restoration to 1945: Bifurcating into an Industrial Mentality

1998 ◽  
pp. 71-97
Author(s):  
Wei-Bin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Meiji Restoration

Kyoto’s Renaissance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Breen ◽  
Maruyama Hiroshi ◽  
Takagi Hiroshi
Keyword(s):  
Meiji Restoration ◽  
Imperial Court

Draws on archive of material, a first in English to take an in-depth look at Kyoto’s modern transformation – its reinvention after ‘collapse’ (Meiji Restoration) and relocation of the imperial court to Tokyo. Includes: introduction, chapters on notable historical elements that sustain Kyoto as a quintessentially modern ‘ancient capital’ today.

scholarly journals Impact of the Memory of Kurofune (Black Ships) on the Course of Industrialization in Early Meiji Japan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoki Odanaka
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
United States Navy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Meiji Japan ◽  
Meiji Restoration ◽  
David Ricardo ◽  
The Impact

This paper analyzes the impact and influence of the memory of kurofune (black ships), iron-armored battleships of the United States Navy led by Commodore Matthew Perry (1794-1858) that came to Japan in 1853, exerted over the course of industrialization in early Meiji Japan, which is the period from the Meiji Restoration (1868) to the Sino-Japanese war (1894-5). Using the comparative advantage theory formalized by David Ricardo (1772-1823) as an analytical tool, we consider the arguments of major contemporary Japanese policymakers as the object of analysis. We have three conclusions. First, the economic policy adopted by early Meiji policymakers generally followed the comparative advantage theory. Second, their goal was not the monoculturization of the comparative advantage goods, but the heavy industrialization necessary for avoiding the colonization: export of comparative advantage goods was a means to collect money for it. Third, they regarded the development of transportation-related industries as important because it would hasten the “movement” of men and goods, which would lead to the increased wealth and which was symbolized by the kurofune in the collective memory.

scholarly journals Japan’s Civil Registration Systems Before and After the Meiji Restoration

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osamu Saito ◽  
Masahiro Sato
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Land Registration ◽  
Local Practice ◽  
Civil Registration ◽  
Meiji Restoration ◽  
Before And After ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Village Woman ◽  
Continuity And Discontinuity

This chapter traces the evolution of Japan's systems of household and land registration from c.1600 to the period of early Meiji reforms in the 1870s and 1880s, with due attention to the distinction between a system designed by the state and local forms of registration practice. In the section on the pre-Meiji period, one such local practice of having people ‘disowned’ and its consequence — registerlessness — is examined. The section on the Meiji reforms and the section that follows turn to the issue of continuity and discontinuity, and the question of whether any progress was made by those reforms. In order to illustrate the actual changes that took place at the local level, the chapter begins with an eighteenth-century story about a peasant woman and ends with a case of a family dispute that another village woman brought before the court some 120 years later.

scholarly journals Land of the Morning Calm, Land of the Rising Sun: The East Asia Travel Writings of Isabella Bird and George Curzon

2002 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jihang Park
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Meiji Restoration ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Opium War ◽  
Travel Writings ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Fierce Competition

The developments in East Asia in the late nineteenth century became a matter of great interest to Britain. The rise of Japan and the wrangles among the great powers over China and Korea were some of the issues that put East Asia in the spotlight. In China, Western powers had been contending fiercely for economic and political hegemony since the Opium War. Japan, after abandoning its national policy of seclusion in 1854, carried out the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and was driving towards rapid Westernization. Here modernization took place in a relatively smooth manner and there was no need to fear external threats, but domestic tensions were inevitable. Finally Korea, after being forced to open its doors in 1876, suffered from acute dissensions between conservatives and progressives, and fierce competition between China, Japan and Russia over hegemony in Korea complicated the situation further.

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