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Japan’s ability to rapidly assimilate everything from technology to architecture to food and come up with singular, successful and often superior variations of its own has astounded the world since the Meiji Period. In this issue, we introduce some of the most noteworthy of these accomplishments, and how the country’s openness to ideas took it from being a feudal society to one of the world’s most modern and influential in the world.
An interview with political history scholar Takashi Mikuriya
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How Japan went from having only models of trains in 1853 to become a rail technology leader and the home of the shinkansen
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The story of a steelworks in Kitakyushu that helped turn Japan into a modern technological superpower
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Kingo Tatsuno and other Japanese disciples of an influential British architect shaped the country’s modern cityscapes
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The Kanaya Hotel’s Western style brought a wave of foreign visitors to Nikko and a whole new concept of leisure to Japan
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Three young Japanese girls absorbed U.S. educational and societal practices and returned to transform women’s education here
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Japan’s most influential writers chronicled the often-painful changes Japan’s swiftly modernizing society experienced during Meiji
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As with architecture, social mores and design, Japan put its own delicious spin on cuisine from the West, including tonkatsu
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Restoring the Meiji Spirit 150 Years After It Emerged
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