Add to ORKGThis thesis examines the motives behind the Japanese imperial household's decision to invite an American Christian woman, Elizabeth Gray Vining, to the court as tutor to Crown Prince Akihito about one year after the Allied Occupation of Japan began. In the past, the common narrative of scholars and the media has been that the new tutor, Vining, came to the imperial household at the invitation of Emperor Hirohito, who personally asked George Stoddard, head of the United States Education Mission to Japan, to find a tutor for the crown prince. While it may have been true that the emperor directly spoke to Stoddard regarding the need of a new tutor for the prince, the claim that the emperor came up with such a proposal entirely on his own is de...
The Chosun dynasty in the Nation-opening period did not have any channels to secure Western cultural...
To speak of Meiji Ishin, one would normally come across many pieces of literature that mention the r...
The occurrence of Meiji Ishin in Japan in the year 1868 had sparked many interests across the globe....
This thesis examines the motives behind the Japanese imperial household's decision to invite an Amer...
This analysis allows readers to confront for themselves the 27 September 1945 meeting between the Sh...
Prompted largely by the illness and subsequent death of the Showa Emperor, discussions have recently...
This paper discusses and reexamines Emperor Hirohito’s degree of responsibility in Japan’s military ...
This paper will provide an insight into why the Japanese liked General MacArthur during the American...
Shillony: Paper examines how Japan’s imperial dynasty dependent on the male line of succession has l...
Scholars of modern Japanese history agree that the em-peror-system served as the key principle of so...
Contents: Editor\u27s Introduction by Melissa Dale Empress Meisho (1623-96) and Cultural Pursuits a...
After the victory over the feudal powers （Tokugawa Bakuhan Taisei）, Meiji Government started its off...
During the nineteenth century, several Western powers began to establish a presence in East Asia thr...
Abstract. Since the Second World War, things have dramatically changed in Japan, most specially in ...
Not long ago I reread some of the works of Elizabeth Vining， that remarkable lady who burst into pro...
The Chosun dynasty in the Nation-opening period did not have any channels to secure Western cultural...
To speak of Meiji Ishin, one would normally come across many pieces of literature that mention the r...
The occurrence of Meiji Ishin in Japan in the year 1868 had sparked many interests across the globe....
This thesis examines the motives behind the Japanese imperial household's decision to invite an Amer...
This analysis allows readers to confront for themselves the 27 September 1945 meeting between the Sh...
Prompted largely by the illness and subsequent death of the Showa Emperor, discussions have recently...
This paper discusses and reexamines Emperor Hirohito’s degree of responsibility in Japan’s military ...
This paper will provide an insight into why the Japanese liked General MacArthur during the American...
Shillony: Paper examines how Japan’s imperial dynasty dependent on the male line of succession has l...
Scholars of modern Japanese history agree that the em-peror-system served as the key principle of so...
Contents: Editor\u27s Introduction by Melissa Dale Empress Meisho (1623-96) and Cultural Pursuits a...
After the victory over the feudal powers （Tokugawa Bakuhan Taisei）, Meiji Government started its off...
During the nineteenth century, several Western powers began to establish a presence in East Asia thr...
Abstract. Since the Second World War, things have dramatically changed in Japan, most specially in ...
Not long ago I reread some of the works of Elizabeth Vining， that remarkable lady who burst into pro...
The Chosun dynasty in the Nation-opening period did not have any channels to secure Western cultural...
To speak of Meiji Ishin, one would normally come across many pieces of literature that mention the r...
The occurrence of Meiji Ishin in Japan in the year 1868 had sparked many interests across the globe....