Nicholas Albertson, assistant professor of Japanese, discussed how a 1920s anarchist feminist poet diagnosed Japan’s rising imperialism during a presentation on Tuesday, Nov. 11. His presentation, ...

Japan is still in great measure a military-bureaucratic autocracy, operating under constitutional parliamentary forms. Authority does not reside in the people or in their representatives. The ...

Century-old footage of Empress Teimei and Crown Prince Hirohito was recently discovered at a university in Ise, giving modern viewers an ultra-rare glimpse into an early 20th century Japan. The ...

The Japanese is industrious, frugal, ambitious, and desirous of developing land where he may establish himself and raise a family, all these being characteristics which are ordinarily considered ...

A century ago, American artists and designers were reveling in the newfound aesthetics of world cultures, and one of the most fervent “crazes” was for Japanese design. A vignette illustrating the ...

Today, sumo is a modern sport with records, rules and a governing institution that celebrated its 100th anniversary in ...

The streamlined forms in this show reflect the influence of both traditional Japanese art and the rapid advances of the machine age. A pair of silver-and-gilt origami cranes, designed in the thirties ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Obverse Image: Flower cartouche ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract After Japan’s colonization of Korea in 1910, many Korean peasants lost their land owing to the changes imposed in agriculture, and several ...

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