Kuki Ryūichi (1850–1931), the first Director of the Imperial Museum in Tokyo (presently Tokyo National Museum), drew up a guideline for collecting antiquities in 1894, at a time when the first Sino-Japanese war (1894–95) broke out. This guideline lays out the benefits of collecting Chinese and Korean antiquities during Japanese military operations and thus provides important context for understanding the Japanese imperialist perspective on taking objects from China and Korea to Japan over the..
During the Japanese Occupation of China (1931-45), countless Chinese cultural relics were simply des...
Many historians consider Japanese civilization developing along a distinct track against that of the...
Between 1895 and 1945, Japan was the first non-Western power to build an extensive empire in Asia. T...
In the spring and autumn of 1908, a Japanese hotel named Rokusantai or Liusanting in Chinese, became...
Collecting Asian Objects in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 ‘동양東洋’을 수집하다 Musée national de Corée, Séoul J...
Japan has incorporated aspects of different civilizations for hundreds of years. Until recently, mos...
China’s three northeastern provinces (Fengtian, Heilongjiang, and Jilin) were transfigured by Japane...
Japan created the Living National Treasures (LNT) program to protect intangible heritage practices i...
Most of cultural properties had disappeared during Japan's occupation of the Korean peninsula from ...
301 pagesDuring the historical transition period from Qing empire to early Republic, China was influ...
In the first part of the 1910s, the Japanese army considered colonial Korea as an important foothold...
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and de...
While diplomats and soldiers may carve out empires, civilians also play a crucial role in building n...
In order to gain a full understanding of the forces behind the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 193...
Imperial China has a long-standing, multifaceted, and interesting imperial maritime history. Of part...
During the Japanese Occupation of China (1931-45), countless Chinese cultural relics were simply des...
Many historians consider Japanese civilization developing along a distinct track against that of the...
Between 1895 and 1945, Japan was the first non-Western power to build an extensive empire in Asia. T...
In the spring and autumn of 1908, a Japanese hotel named Rokusantai or Liusanting in Chinese, became...
Collecting Asian Objects in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 ‘동양東洋’을 수집하다 Musée national de Corée, Séoul J...
Japan has incorporated aspects of different civilizations for hundreds of years. Until recently, mos...
China’s three northeastern provinces (Fengtian, Heilongjiang, and Jilin) were transfigured by Japane...
Japan created the Living National Treasures (LNT) program to protect intangible heritage practices i...
Most of cultural properties had disappeared during Japan's occupation of the Korean peninsula from ...
301 pagesDuring the historical transition period from Qing empire to early Republic, China was influ...
In the first part of the 1910s, the Japanese army considered colonial Korea as an important foothold...
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and de...
While diplomats and soldiers may carve out empires, civilians also play a crucial role in building n...
In order to gain a full understanding of the forces behind the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 193...
Imperial China has a long-standing, multifaceted, and interesting imperial maritime history. Of part...
During the Japanese Occupation of China (1931-45), countless Chinese cultural relics were simply des...
Many historians consider Japanese civilization developing along a distinct track against that of the...
Between 1895 and 1945, Japan was the first non-Western power to build an extensive empire in Asia. T...