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  2. History of education in Japan - Wikipedia

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    "Japanese Childhood, Modern Childhood: The Nation-State, the School, and 19th-Century Globalization", Journal of Social History (2005) 38#4, pp 965–985 online; Saito, Hiro. "Cosmopolitan Nation-Building: The Institutional Contradiction and Politics of Postwar Japanese Education", Social Science Japan Journal, Summer 2011, Vol. 14 Issue 2, pp ...

  3. Education in the Empire of Japan - Wikipedia

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    In December, 1885, the cabinet system of government was established, and Mori Arinori became the first Minister of Education of Japan. Mori, together with Inoue Kowashi created the foundation of the Empire of Japan's educational system by issuing a series of orders from 1886. These laws established an elementary school system, middle school ...

  4. History of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japan portal. v. t. e. The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago. [1] The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inventions were introduced from Asia.

  5. Education in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The contemporary Japanese education system is a product of historical reforms dating back to the Meiji period, which established modern educational institutions and systems. [9] This early start of modernisation enabled Japan to provide education at all levels in the native language , [10] rather than using the languages of powerful countries ...

  6. Edo period - Wikipedia

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    e. The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1603 and 1868 [1] in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.

  7. Daimyo - Wikipedia

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    Daimyo (大名, daimyō, Japanese pronunciation: [daimʲoː] ⓘ) were powerful Japanese magnates, [1] feudal lords [2] who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and nominally to the emperor and the kuge (an ...

  8. History of education - Wikipedia

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    History of education. Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato 's Academy. The history of education extends at least as far back as the first written records recovered from ancient civilizations. Historical studies have included virtually every nation. [1][2][3] The earliest known formal school was developed in Egypt's Middle Kingdom ...

  9. William Bodiford - Wikipedia

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    Komazawa University. Genre. Non-fiction. Subject. Religion. Notable works. Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan. William Marvin Bodiford (born December 3, 1955 [1]) is an American professor and author. He teaches Buddhist Studies and religion in the cultures of Japan and East Asia at the University of California, Los Angeles.