According to Homeagerly, Japan’s modernization program started from the so-called Meiji restoration (1868) and invested all fields bringing with it profound and radical transformations, often inspired by Western models, the only ones that seemed able[…]
The Utsubo monogatari (“Tale of a hollow tree”) and the Ochikubo monogatari (“History of Ochikubo”), both by an unknown author, represent a much longer kind of tale, a mixture of fantastic and folkloric elements, and descriptions of the life[…]
According to Diseaseslearning, two events dominate literature: the introduction of Chinese civilization and culture, especially from the 5th century. onwards, and that of European civilization, officially adopted in the 19th century. 6 periods are commonly[…]
In 1603, the creation of a new government in Edo (od. Tokyo) by I. Tokugawa brought peace and order to the country that had been ravaged by civil war. Edo became the political, economic and[…]
According to Carswers, the period is marked by intermittent wars that swept the entire country and marked the rise to power of the military class and the political decline of the court nobility; alongside the[…]
In its essential features, Japanese literature reveals a very particular taste for form, which gives color to the innate aesthetic sense that is in the prerogatives of the breed. In literature, a palpitating expression of[…]
At the beginning of the seventies, the disappearance of two important writers such as Y. Mishima (1970) and Y. Kawabata (1972), preceded only by a few years by that of another teacher, J. Tanizaki (1965),[…]
Civil right. – In the course of 1889, a civil code was promulgated to enter into force on 1 January 1893, essentially based on a notable project carried out by the French jurist Boissonade de[…]
Since the beginning of the conflict with China (see Sino – Japanese, war, Appendix I, p. 433 and in this Appendix) the Japanese attributed most of the difficulties encountered, in an attempt to overcome the[…]
On the threshold of the 2000s, the Japanese ruling class found itself engaged in the frantic search for a new economic-social equilibrium in the face of the definitive decline of the Japanese development model, undermined[…]
Already from the century. IX and X the two families of Taira (v.) And Minamoto (v.) Had risen in great prominence and their members had distinguished themselves in numerous war operations. Fate had to pit[…]
On July 8, 1853, according to Themotorcyclers, a team of 4 American ships under the command of Commodore M. Calbraith Perry dropped anchor off Uraga, a small port at the entrance to Tōkyō Bay. Overcoming,[…]
Japan, the third largest economy in the world and second in the period 1990-2012, is one of the regional powers of Asia, thanks to its ability to influence the countries of Southeast Asia, and with[…]
Flora and Vegetation. – The flora of Japan has great similarities with that of the forest area of the Atlantic basin (Europe, North America) and with that of the Tertiary sector in Europe. However, given[…]
Japan A refined culture and an advanced industry A country with an extraordinary history, capable of transforming itself in the space of a generation, today’s Japan is the second largest economic power and one of[…]
The ancient school system, which remained for centuries under the influence of Chinese culture, has been replaced, with the renewal of 1868, which opened the doors to Western culture, an organization that largely follows the[…]
Economy Until the international crisis of 2009, Japan was the second largest economy in the world in terms of GDP. Although in 2010 it was overtaken by China, still it remains one of the first[…]
The sudden growth that in a few decades brought Japan, first among non-Western states, to the rank of modern world economic power was the result of various dynamics. The process was partly fortuitously triggered by[…]
Upon his death (1199) a family council appointed Hōlō Tokimasa, his father-in-law, guardian (shikken) of his son Yoriie. Power thus fell into the hands of Tokimasa and his daughter Masako, widow of Yoritomo. A short[…]
Population The population (8,336,000 in 1998, according to a UN estimate), a slight decrease in the last decade of the 20th century, due to the constantly low birth rate (8.1 ‰ in 1995) and a[…]
Contemporary to this revolt was the arrival, from a Viking expedition, of a descendant of Harald Haarfagre, Olav Tryggvason, who soon conquered power over all of Norway with the exception of the Oplandene. Olav, who[…]
Army. – The balance of the war in 1930 amounted to Egyptian pounds. 1,785,000, equal to ITL. 169.500.000 and 4.6% of the general budget. Balanced force 22,000 men, including about 1000 officers. The supreme commander[…]
The figures of the Brazilian census of 1920 find sufficient confirmation in an inductive calculation made on the basis of our statistics and which, starting from the number of arrivals, deducts from these the repatriated[…]
The urban phenomenon is recent; no city predates the white conquest; the first days of the colonial era are characterized by the foundation of cities which for many years have borne this name without deserving[…]
Budgets and public debt. – The main revenue of the Spanish budget derives from direct and indirect taxation and from monopolies. Expenditure includes those for public debt service, public works, national defense, education and pensions.[…]
After the war, the activity of M. Nowicki (1910-1950), the best known among the Polish architects established in the world, author of the reconstruction plan of the Center of Warsaw, but above all of the[…]
State of North America. According to 2006 estimates, the population of Mexico would amount to over 107 million residents (they were still 97,483,000 at the 2000 census); the density has on average exceeded 53 residents / km 2.[…]
Only with the Reformation did a new period begin in Sweden, even in literature. Throughout the fifteenth century, humanism had had very little impact in Sweden. Even in the early decades of the sixteenth century,[…]
Northern Hungary In the Middle Ages there was no term for the northern area of the Hungary as a whole and only in the Late Middle Ages did the denomination of Hungary superior (Hungarian Felsömagyarország[…]
Australia is one of the most uniform regions in the world, considering its size: and this is all the more surprising, as it is flanked to the north and east by two of the most[…]
