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 ...

In many world history curricula, the study of modern Japan moves from the Meiji Restoration (1868) directly to the beginnings of World War II. If time allows, a quick overview of the Sino-Japanese and ...

The imperial couple, to whom Meiji Shrine is dedicated ... “(Shoken) gives insights on Japanese women,” she said. “We could see how she could use the specific limits of that time to express ...