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Framing Twentieth-Century Japan: A Top-Ten List
EssayA leading professor of modern Japanese history offers his provocative thoughts about the ten most important themes for American students to learn about 20th-century Japan.
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Tokyo Bombing Damage
ResourcePicture of Tokyo illustrating the physical damage created by intensive bombing, especially in March 1945.
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Japanese classroom in 1920
ResourceThis 1920 photograph captures students using an abacus to make calculations.
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Minamata Disease Protest
ResourceProtesters in 1992 marching to support court proceedings against the Chisso Corporation, who caused mercury poisoning in Minamata, Kyushu through dumping industrial waste in the 1950s.
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Imperial Hotel
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War Crime Tribunal
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Tokyo University Protests
ResourceRadical students at Tokyo University battle the police in January, 1969.
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Suffragists
ResourcePhotograph from the 1920s of women bringing peitions to the Imperial diet demanding the right to vote.
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Sony Factory
ResourceAssembly line producing Sony Trinitron televisions in 1970.
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Shinkansen
ResourceEmblematic picture of a shinkansen ("bullet train") passing in front of a Buddhist temple in 1966.
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