Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Princeton University History Professor Linda Colley discussed the geopolitical and economic effects of Japanese modernization following the Meiji ...

The year 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of Meiji Restoration in Japan. Initiated in 1868, Meiji Restoration was a top-down capitalism reform, which not only made Japan the first country in Asia to ...

Social mobility refers to the movement of individuals from one socio-economic strata to another, followed by a change in their social status. In today’s world, social mobility is largely driven by ...

THE story of Japan’s modernisation began 150 years ago this month, when a band of young samurai and their allies overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate and with it seven centuries of feudal rule. Under the ...

IN January 1868 some young samurai and their merchant sympathisers overthrew Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate and with it seven centuries of feudal rule. The so-called Meiji restoration was the cue for such ...

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 ...

This editorial is an examination of threats to Taiwan based on American anthropologist Jared Diamond's new book "Upheaval," which examines how nations cope with crises, internal and external threats, ...