New York, London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. — 319 p. The Empire of Japan remained unknown to Europe until the 13th century, when Rubruquis and Marco Polo discovered its existence ; but it was not till after the arrival of the Portuguese Jesuits in the Japanese Islands, chat is, in the 10th century, that the country became a little more familiar to Western peoples. It is...
Tuttle Publishing, 2014. — 612 p. Samurai Revolution tells the fascinating story of Japan's historic transformation at the end of the nineteenth century from a country of shoguns, feudal lords and samurai to a modern industrialized nation. The book covers the turbulent Meiji Period from 1868 to 1912, widely considered "the dawn of modern Japan," a time of Samurai history in...
Tuttle Publishing, 2011. — 256 p. Samurai Tales is about the legendary men from the samurai class who fought for the helm of power in 19th century Japan. These are stories of courage, honor, fidelity, disgrace, fate, and destiny set in the bloody time of political change and social upheaval in the final years of the Shogun. The final years of the samurai were an age of...
Stanford University Press, 1971. — 418 p. On large historical sources author descript the role of single noble man in main processes of Japan history of XIX century.
Cornell University Press, 2016. — 244 p. In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan. In fifty years spanning the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji nation-state, conscripts supplanted warriors as Japan's principal arms-bearers. The most common version of this story suggests that the Meiji...
Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1973. — 195 p. Ōkuma Shigenobu was one of the most outstanding statesmen in Japan in modern times. He was one of a small group of oligarchs who, through a series of remarkably successful reforms, helped guide Japan into the modern era, and was exceptional in that he consistently urged the adoption of British-style parliamentary...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 255 p. Dramatic innovations in modern Japan include a mass army, overseas empire, and constitutional polity. This is the first book to link these changes in the Meiji era (1868-1912). It focuses on the life of General Katsura Taro, one of the architects of the modern military, a leading figure in Japanese colonialism, and prime minister through the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1994. — 236 p. This is a study of the war which established Japan's image as a warrior nation, an image which in many ways persists today. Using extensive Japanese materials, including the letters of frontline troops and provincial newspapers, it presents the diverse experience both of soldiers and civilians, and reveals how war accelerated the modernization...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 258 p. In the late nineteenth century, the Japanese embarked on a program of westernization in the hope of building a strong and modern nation. Science, technology and medicine played an important part, showing European nations that Japan was a world power worthy of respect. But how well-organized was the state and how close were government-business...
Monograph, by Oxford University Press, London, 1963 Among the spate of books about Japan that have appeared since the war in English and other European languages, one type is almost conspicuous by its rarity: namely, studies by Japanese scholars about their own country. Several bookshelves could be filled with works: by Western experts dealing with the history, politics,...
University of Hawaii Press, 1997. — 475 p. Detailed and diverse, Proliferating Talent challenges us to rethink a crucial period in Japanese history. The eight essays translated here broadly cover the eventful half century that witnessed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the modern Japanese state to the position of an international power. Edited by J.S.A....
London: John Murray, 1879. — XVI + 294 p. The book details an important period in Japan's history and an interesting tale of the nation's samurai. Augustus Henry Mounsey's book opens with an account of the Meiji restoration, which refers to Japan's restoration of imperial rule in 1868. This is a logical place to start, as the author is establishing the conditions that lead to...
Columbia University Press, 2017. — 320 p. In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan’s 1853 “opening” to the West, he witnessed the collapse...
Princeton University Press, 2004. - 238 p. ISBN: 0-691-11774-8 New Times in Modern Japan concerns the transformation of time-the reckoning of time-during Japan's Meiji period, specifically from around 1870 to 1900. Time literally changed as the archipelago synchronized with the Western imperialists' reckoning of time. The solar calendar and clock became standard timekeeping...
1857. — 13 p. This document is the original roll of the students of the Navy Officer Training School in Nagasaki that was established in 1855 by the Edo bakufu (shogunate) for the purpose of introducing a European-style navy to Japan. It was staffed by Dutch naval instructors. The students studied mathematics, seamanship, ship construction, navigation, and weaponry. The school...
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