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Japanese nationalism

  • Empire of JapanOn the 3rd of January 1868, Satsuma-Chōshū forces seized the imperial palace in Kyoto. The following day, a fifteen-year-old boy named Crown Prince Mutsuhito…
  • Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity SphereIn the autumn of 1872, United States minister to Japan Charles DeLong explained to U.S. General Charles LeGendre that he had been urging the Government of…
  • JapanophiliaCarl Peter Thunberg stood in a Japanese garden during the late 1700s and cataloged plants that had never been seen by European eyes.