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  Suffragists

  Resource

  Photograph from the 1920s of women bringing peitions to the Imperial diet demanding the right to vote.
  

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  Sony Factory

  Resource

  Assembly line producing Sony Trinitron televisions in 1970.
  

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  Shinkansen

  Resource

  Emblematic picture of a shinkansen ("bullet train") passing in front of a Buddhist temple in 1966.
  

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  Sarin Gas Attack Cleanup

  Resource

  In March 20, 1995, the apocalyptic Aum Shinrikyo cult unleashed a terrorist poison gas attack on the Tokyo subway during the Monday morning rush hour commute. This picture shows the decontamination of a subway car.
  

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  Pearl Harbor Attack

  Resource

  Photograph of US naval ship USS West Virginia being sunk by Japanese airplanes on Dec. 7, 1941.
  

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  1968 Nobel Prize Winners

  Resource

  Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata, winner of the 1968 nobel prize in literature, pictured with other honorees from 1968.
  

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  May Day

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  Speaker at a May Day protest in Tokyo on May 16, 1931.
  

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  Mass Exercises

  Resource

  Children exercising as a group to commemorate the mythical 2,600th anniverary of the "birth of Japan."
  

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  Japan in the World Since 1945

  Lesson

  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.
  

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  Popular Culture and Japan's Gross National Cool

  Lesson

  Modern Japan's pop culture, from Hello Kitty to Wii, has been successfully exported worldwide. This lesson explores the varied roots of these cultural trends and their significance in a global context.
  

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