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History of Japan

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Danchi Summary
727 words, approx. 2 pages
During the Meiji period (1868–1912), Japanese cities rapidly industrialized, bringing large numbers of people from rural areas to urban centers. Some neighborhoods in Tokyo became virtual tenements, with almost 200 percent occupancy in some...
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Denki Roren Summary
228 words, approx. 1 pages
Denki Roren, or the Japanese Federation of Electric Machine Workers' Unions, was the sector-level labor-union federation for Japan's workers in the electrical machinery, electrical appliance, and electronics industries between its May...
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Eda Saburo Summary
227 words, approx. 1 pages
(1907–1977), Japanese politician. Born in Okayama Prefecture, Eda Saburo left college to participate in the leftist farmer's movement. Those activities led to his becoming a member of the central executive committee of the National...
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Ichikawa Fusae Summary
222 words, approx. 1 pages
(1893–1981), leading Japanese politician, activist in Japan's women's liberation movement. Ichikawa Fusae was born in Aichi Prefecture and graduated from Aichi Women's Normal School, after which she first pursued a career...
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History of Japan Information
9,371 words, approx. 31 pages
The written history of Japan began with brief appearances in Chinese history texts from the first century AD. However, archaeological research indicates that people were living on the islands of Japan as early as the upper paleolithic period.[1][2]...
 


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National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
A Modern History of Japan.
09/22/2002: 355 words, approx. 1 pages
By James L. McClain New York, 2001: W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., pages 632 notes and index. James L. McClain is Professor of History at Brown University, Rhode Island, and is a recognised scholar of Japanese history. "A Modern History of Japan" commences...
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History: Review of New Books
A History of Japan.(Review) (book review)
09/22/2000: 477 words, approx. 2 pages
Totman, Conrad A History of Japan Oxford: Blackwell Publishers 620 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-631-214-47-X Publication Date: May 2000 Conrad Totman, an emeritus professor at Yale University, dedicated A History of Japan to friends mentioned in chapters 13 and 14, but this ambitious description...
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AP News
Moratorium on commercial whaling upheld
6/1/2007: 415 words, approx. 1 pages
The International Whaling Commission passed a resolution Thursday that upholds a 21-year moratorium on commercial whaling.The move on the final day of the commission's annual meeting essentially snubbed a symbolic resolution passed by a one-vote majority last year that said the ban was meant to...
 


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