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[…]