Resource: Building Japan's First Railways
"Building Japan's First Railways: How Western and Japanese Cultures Interacted while Conducting Technology Transfer in the 19th Century," excerpted from Early Japanese Railways by Dan Free (Tuttle Publishing: 2008).
Resource: Yorkshire Tank at Shimbashi
Photo of a Yorkshire Tank at Shimbashi during the early Meiji era.
Resource: Outlook for the US Economy Video: Christopher Mayer
Christopher Mayer, The Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate at Columbia Business School, discusses the root causes of the current financial market turmoil and offers comparative analysis of and lessons learned from Japan’s “lost-decade,” as well as assessments of the future of the U.S. and global economies, in plain English. The lecture was delivered on October 2, 2008.
Resource: Alcohol and Poverty in Tokyo
This photograph depicts two men in the San'ya section of Tokyo drinking near a liquor vending machine. This section of Tokyo is well known as an area where many day laborers live. The area also has many residents who have fallen on hard times along with many working poor.
Resource: Souvenirs At Yasukuni Shrine
Pictures of souvenirs, which can be interpreted as nationalistic, being sold at Yasukuni Shrine. This Shrine, dedicated to Japanese war dead, is extremely controversial.
Resource: Enactment of the Meiji Constitution
A portrait of the Emperor of Japan instating to law the Meiji Constitution.
Lesson: Japan in the World Since 1945
Grade Level: SecondarySubject Area: Social Studies
This lesson explores Japan's politics after the Allied Occupation, in particular the close but conflicted relationship with the United States, the sometimes strained relations with China and South Korea, and Japan's military policy.
Resource: Crown Prince Akihito's First Birthday observed by Young Women's Patriotic Association
Picture of the Showa branch of the Young Women's Patriotic Association showing their allegiance to the Imperial Family on the first birthday of then Crown Prince Akihito on January 10, 1935.
Resource: Saigo Takamori Statue
This statue of Saigo Takamori, a leader in the Meiji Restoration and later rebel against the Meiji government, is a famous meeting point in Ueno Park in Tokyo.
Resource: Student-Police Clash over Okinawa Reversion Treaty
Students, upset over the US maintaining bases after the return of Okinawa to Japan, clashed with police in 1971.
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