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The Confusion Era - http://educate.si.edu/migrations/sackler/salthome.html
Describes postwar American involvement in remodeling Japanese society, along with pictures of several posters used for information and propaganda. |
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Japan Center for Asian Historical Records - http://www.jacar.go.jp/english/index.html
Provides electronic access to digital images of historical records about modern Japan-Asia relations held by Japanese national institutions. Includes records held by the National Archives of Japan, the Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the National Institute for Defense Studies of the National Defense Agency. Time period: early Meiji (1867-1912) era through World War II. In English and Japanese. |
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The Currency Museum - http://www.imes.boj.or.jp/cm/english_htmls/index.htm
Bank of Japan virtual museum exhibit of old currency in Japan, as well as money used during Japan's colonial empire. |
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Constitution of the Empire of Japan (1889) - http://history.hanover.edu/texts/1889con.htm
Full text in English of Japan's former constitution, from Hanover University. |
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Japanese History - http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e641.html
History of Japan. Overview, and ancient to modern Japan |
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MIT Visualizing Cultures -- Japan - http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/
Visual culture (art, photography, video, etc) of Japan since the mid-19th century. The aim of the collection, created by Pulitzer-Prize winner John Dower, is to gain new perspectives on "cultures" in the broadest sense. "Cultures" include Westernization, modernization, changing modes of technology and mass communication, imperialism, nationalism, militarism, racism, commercialization and consumerism. Begins with the black ships of Commodore Perry and ends with pictures by A-bomb survivors. |
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Imperial Japanese Navy Page - http://www.combinedfleet.com/
Contains pictures of former vessels in the wartime navy, as well as information on their guns, torpedoes, sensors, names, and officers. |
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History of Japanese Railways - http://www.rtri.or.jp/japanrail/History1_E.html
Chronological listing of railroads from 1872 to 1907 (the first line, redcap, women employed, and horsedrawn). A few illustrations, including a print of an 1870s train. |
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History Textbook Controversies in Japan - http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-1/japan.htm
Provides full-text access to the ERIC Digest of this name which looks at Japanese textbooks and how they cover Japanese history from the early 20th Century. |
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Japanese Historical Text Initiative - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/JHTI/
Digitized, searchable database of important Japanese historical documents, with English translations. Includes ancient chronicles such as the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, medieval stories such as Okagami, and documents of the modern Japanese state such as Kokutai no Hongi (Principles of Nation-body). |
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Emperor Hirohito in 20th Century History: The Debate Rekindles - http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp92.html
Examines a new debate on Hirohito and his role in WWII and history, and as at once a product and an active agent of Japan's modern historical process. |
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Politics and the Economy in Pre-War Japan - http://ideas.repec.org/p/cep/stijsp/381.html
Discusses the influences that led to the economic policies pursued in the interwar period. |
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Business and Politics in Early 20th Century Japan - http://ideas.repec.org/p/cep/stijsp/429.html
Seeks to clarify the contributions and limitations of Japanese business diplomacy. Argues that Japanese business diplomacy, was insufficiently influential to prevent political and military conflict. |
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Evolution of Japanese Stamps - http://www.ambassadors.net/features.htm
Chronicles the development of Japanese stamps from 1929. |
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Aspects of Japanese Shipping History - http://ideas.repec.org/p/cep/stijsp/376.html
Outlines trends in the development of Japan's commercial shipping prior to World War I. Argues that the promotion of the industry was undertaken primarily not for commercial, but for strategic imperialist reasons. |