The government has expressed deep regret over Japan not implementing follow-up measures after listing the latter's modern ...

The other sites are: Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution which encompasses a series of eleven properties, mainly located in the southwest of Japan. It bears testimony to the rapid ...

The process of modernization and how a country becomes a modern nation. Continuities in this transition such as: Proto-industrialization in the Tokugawa era sets the stage for Meiji industrial ...

The exhibition is “the Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining.” The dispute has been caused by Japan’s failure to provide sufficient ...

Japan had promised earlier to take steps to remember the victims, including many Koreans who were forced into hard labor, ...

Since the Meiji era, Japan has actively imported Western culture, promoted modernization, industrialization and Westernization, and achieved a highly industrial society. However, compared with the ...