1,760,184 research outputs found
Institutional Change in Meiji Japan: Image and Reality
Get PDFThe substantial institutional and organisational changes in Japan that followed the Meiji Restoration of 1868 have often gone down in history as an unmitigated success story. The objective of this paper is to analyse the course of the Meiji reform process to indicate how far it might offer any lessons for institutional and organisational reform in Japan at the start of the twenty-first century. I argue that the reality of the Meiji transformation was invariably more problematic than the successful image often portrayed. Analysis of the Meiji experience of three key areas at the heart of current debates in Japan financial institutions, business enterprise and the labour market suggests that in all three cases the process of institutional and organisational change before the First World War was slow and sporadic. The transformation was stimulated by a sense of national urgency and driven by political will. I suggest that great caution needs to be exercised in drawing any lessons for contemporary Japan from the Meiji experience, but that the analysis suggests firstly that it is unrealistic to expect fundamental institutional change within a very short time span, and secondly that the relative merits of importing new institutions and modifying existing ones are rarely clear cut. A further key difference between the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries is also the nature of the global economy, and Japan’s radically different position within it.Japan; Meiji Restoration; revolution; reform; institutional change; labour market; financial institutions; business enterprise; globalization.
Japan's Civil Registration Systems Before and After the Meiji Restoration
Get PDFThis essay traces the evolution of Japan's systems of household and land registration from Tokugawa times to the period of early Meiji reforms in the 1870s and 80s. The paper pays due attention to the distinction between an early modern system designed by state authority and local forms of registration practice. Thus, in the section on the Tokugawa period, one such local practice of having people 'disowned' and its consequence, registerlessness, will be examined. The section on the Meiji reforms turns to the issue of continuity and discontinuity, while the next section discusses if any progress in terms of civil identity registration was made by these Meiji reforms. In order to illustrate the actual changes that took place at the local level, the essay begins with an eighteenth-century story about a peasant woman and her disputes with the village officialdom and ends with a case of family dispute that another village woman brought before court some 120 years later.
Meiji yokō.
No full textMeiji Tennō wa kakunogotoku shite hōgyo asobasaru: p. 121-141.Poems (waka)Mode of access: Internet
Introduction: Japan’s future and a New Meiji transformation: International reflections
No full textInternational observers of Japan’s struggles and achievements in the post-Bubble era alternatively marvel at the country’s resilience and wonder about its ability to find its feet in an era of unrelenting socio-economic change and technological transformation. In December 2016, an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars gathered in Narita, Japan, to address a simple question: does the twenty-first century need a reimagining and reconfiguration of the country on the scale and with the intensity of the late nineteenth-century Meiji Restoration. In the introduction to this collection of essays, this chapter reflects on the nature of contemporary challenges facing Japan, contemplates the earlier lessons from Meiji and argues that there will be no clear or simple path forward for the country, due both to the strengths and weaknesses of Japan and the complexities and diverse changes of the contemporary world. © 2019 selection and editorial matter, Ken Coates, Kimie Hara, Carin Holroyd and Marie Söderberg; individual chapters, the contributors
Vocabulary Issues in the Meiji-York International Accounting Program
No full textArticleContinuing improvements to the English language element of the Meiji－York International Accounting Program have resulted in increased participation in lectures and improved presentation skills for the case study component of this program. In this program, the students face the challenge of studying a specialist subject in a different academic cultural environment and vocabulary is an important part of this challenge.departmental bulletin pape
[coin] ½ Sen, 1881, Mutsuhito (Meiji), Japan.
No full textSlagaantal : 17.929.026 exemplaren.Recto: Een ineengekronkelde draak met lange hoorns ; rondom, een parelcirkel, Dai Nippon · Meiji 14 jaar (bovenaan, in Japanse lettertekens) / · 1/2 SEN · (onderaan) en een getande boord.Verso: Binnen een krans van twee takken van de Paulownia tomentosa, die onderaan door middel van een lint zijn samengestrikt, ½ / Sen (in Japanse lettertekens) ; bovenaan, tussen de uiteinden van de krans en evenwijdig aan de rand, splitst een chrysant het opschrift “200 voor 1 yen” (in Japanse lettertekens) ; rondom, een getande boord.Krause, L. & Mishler, C. Standard Catalog of World Coins, USA, Centennial Edition Iola : Colin R. Bruce, 1991, nr. 16.1.Bijzondere collectie
Gli scrittori Meiji e la Cina
No full textLa letteratura cinese ha esercitato notevoli suggestioni sulla produzione della generazione di scrittori giapponesi attivi nel periodo Meiji (1868-1912). L'ingresso nell'epoca moderna favorisce nei letterati giapponesi una conoscenza diretta della realtà della Cina contemporanea; allo stesso tempo, lo studio della cultura cinese è incentivato dal contatto con le teorie letterarie e scientifiche occidentali, che trasmettono agli autori giapponesi moderni un approccio filologico ai classici: nasce così la moderna sinologia giapponese, a tutt'oggi una delle scuole più puntuali e rigorose. L'influenza, sul piano letterario e linguistico, della cultura cinese sulle opere degli intellettuali giapponesi attivi a fine Ottocento è evidente in scritti autobiografici sugli anni della formazione, registrazioni di dibattiti letterari, stralci di romanzi e racconti originali qui presentati in traduzione per testimoniare la poliedricità dei narratori giapponesi moderni e la loro ammirazione per la letteratura cinese: un amore antico quanto la scoperta della scrittura stessa. (dalla quarta di copertina)Chinese literature has exerted a considerable influence on the production of the generation of Japanese writers active in the Meiji period (1868-1912) . The modern era prompted Japanese writers to better cultivate a direct knowledge of the reality of contemporary China, while the same time, the study of Chinese culture was stimulated by contact with Western scientific and literary theories, which conveyed to modern Japanese authors the sense of a philological approach the classics that helped shame the modern Japanese sinology, to this day one of the most accurate and rigorous schools in the field. The influence on the literary and linguistic , of the Chinese culture on the works of Japanese intellectuals active in the late nineteenth century is evident in autobiographical writings on their formation years recordings of literary debates, excerpts of novels and short stories presented here for the first time in italian translation to testify versatility of modern Japanese novelists and their admiration foe Chinese culture: a love as old as the discovery of writing itself. ( from the back cover
The Economic History of the Restoration Period, 1853-1885
Get PDFThis paper overviews the economic history of the period between 1853, the year when Commodore Perry's 'black ships' arrived at Shimoda, and 1885, the year that marked the end of the so-called Matsukata recession period. The chapter will trace economic, political and regime changes during this transitional period in the first four sections. After having explored the question of continuity and discontinuity, I will have a critical look at what the oft-quoted slogan of the new Meiji government, 'rich nation, strong army', meant. The penultimate section discusses the issue of whether or not early Meiji Japan was a developmental, plan-rational state by taking a close look at actual policy changes in the 1870s and 80s. The last section draws implications for the changing constellations in political economy after 1885.
- …
