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The majority of Japanese castles were partially or completely dismantled in the late 19th century in the Meiji restoration by the national government. Since the feudal system was abolished and the fiefs ( han ) theoretically reverting to the emperor, the national government saw no further use for the upkeep of these now obsolete castles.
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.
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 ...
Japanese Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi resigned due to his mild stroke, and Yoshirō Mori become 90th Prime Minister of Japan. 14 May: Japanese Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi died of mild stroke at the hospital in Tokyo at the age of 62. 2001: 26 April: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori resigned and Junichiro Koizumi become 91st Prime Minister ...
In the foreground, Kasuga and Kōtetsu of the Imperial Japanese Navy. In the mid-19th century Japan did not have a unified national army. The country consisted of feudal domains (han) with the Tokugawa shogunate in overall control since 1603. The bakufu army was a large force, but only one among others.
The genre declined throughout the rest of the century in the face of modernization that saw ukiyo-e as both old-fashioned and laborious to produce compared to Western technologies. Ukiyo-e was a primary part of the wave of Japonisme that swept Western art in the late 19th century.
Although the government played a major role in providing the setting for industrialization, destroying old institutions that proved obstacles to industrialization, and creating new institutions that would facilitate economic and political modernization, private enterprise also played a critical role in the distinctly Japanese combination of ...
A woman wearing an elaborate headdress in Japan during the late 19th century. During the 1880s, shappos (hats) became popularised in Japan. [2]: 71 In July 1871, haircutting was made voluntary in an effort to convince Japanese men to move over to the Western hair styles such as zangiri atama, cropped hair, over the Japanese sakayaki (shaved pate).