Since the morning of January 3, 1868, Japan has struggled to answer one question: What does it mean to be modern and Japanese? It was on that date that a group of mid-level samurai and imperial ...

Pacific Vistas: California and the Opening of Japan -- Apocalypse Now: A Bottom-Up View of the Years 1853 to 1868 -- Fukuzawa Yukichi, "A Petition on the Subjugation of Chōshū -- That Terrible Year ...

Inventing Japan? The title of Ian Buruma’s admirably concise overview of 101 crucial years of Japanese history has a twofold significance. A root meaning of “invent” is to come upon or discover ...

JAPAN'S ratification of the London Naval Treaty shows not only that the majority of the Japanese people are thinking along the same lines as the peoples of England and America, but also that her vital ...

Curated by Ryoya Mizuno and Dina Gusejnova, this international workshop will examine how concepts of modernity, Europe, and the West, developed in the light of changing political constellations ...

Mid-nineteenth century Russian radicals who witnessed the Meiji Restoration saw it as the most sweeping revolution in recent history and the impetus for future global progress. Acting outside imperial ...

“Tipsy (Horoyoi),” 1930 (woodblock print, ink and color on paper), by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi. Woman’s summer kimono. Japanese culture, although often imagined in terms of harmony and tranquillity, is ...

“Seikan Ferryboat” from the series Karasu (Ravens); Fukase Masahisa (1934–2012); Japan, 1976; gelatin silver print; partial gift from Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, and purchased through the ...

Since the morning of January 3, 1868, Japan has struggled to answer one question: What does it mean to be modern and Japanese? It was on that date that a group of mid-level samurai and imperial ...