The Meiji government in 1871 issued an edict allowing ... isolation under the feudal rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate. But women were not permitted to switch to short hair without a convincing ...

Patricia Tsurumi’s book Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990) include: A number of these sources are used in the lesson “Voices from ...

That was on Feb. 13, exactly 150 years ago. When an inquiry was made by a local government about the surnames of married women, the Meiji government responded to the effect, “Women who marry are ...

This lesson considers the increasingly complex and differentiated society that emerged in the modern Japan of the late Meiji (1880s-1911) and Taishō (1911-1926) periods, using the case study of ...