Empire
The forced opening in 1853 and the speed of what followed: Meiji industrialisation, the colonies in Taiwan and Korea, Manchuria and the war in China, the Pacific War, and then the occupation, Article 9, the miracle and the bubble.
Part of Japan
48 moments in this segment.
- - JapaneseMissionInWashington. samurai photograph 1860s Japan. The 1860 Japanese Mission to the United States.
- - Curio Shop in Yokohama. Print, 3rd month, 1860, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact.
- - Satsuma-samurai-during-boshin-war-period. samurai photograph 1860s Japan. Samurai of the Chosyu clan, during the Boshin War period
- - Ginza in 1880s. Meiji era Japan photograph 1880s. Ginza in 1880s
- - Kusakabe Kimbei - 577 Bluff Yokohama. Meiji era Japan photograph 1880s. View of Western-style House on the Bluff, Yokohama Japanese Meiji era Photograph, hand-tinted albumen print Image: 19.7 x 26.2 cm (7 3/4 x 10 5/16 in.) Lender Accessory (Album Cover): 24.1 x 33 x 2.2 cm (9 1/2 x 13 x 7/8 in.) Sharf No.: FASBLC1 Museum of Fine Arts,
- - A Street in Tokyo (1897). One of the earliest surviving films shot in Japan, made in 1897 during the Meiji era and published by the National Film Archive through its Meiji Japan on Film portal.
- - Russo-Japanese War Shunga, Eisen Tomioka. Russo-Japanese war print 1904.
- - Les Troubles de Coree. Japanese Empire soldiers 1900s photograph. "TROUBLES OF KOREA". Japanese soldiers fight against Koreans.
- - Attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese minisub. Pearl Harbor attack 1941 photograph. The Japanese "Type A" midget submarine HA-19 partially hauled up on and eastern Oahu beach, during salvage by U.S. forces. It had grounded on 7 December 1941, following attempts to enter Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack, and was discovered the following da
- - Attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese planes view. Pearl Harbor attack 1941 photograph. Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on ships moored on both sides of Ford Island shortly after the beginning of the Pearl Harbor attack. View looks about east, with the supply depot, submarine base and fuel tank farm in the right cent
- - Pearl Harbor wide view attack. Pearl Harbor attack 1941 photograph. Panorama view of Pearl Harbor, during the Japanese raid on 7 December 1941, with anti-aircraft shell bursts overhead. The photograph looks southwesterly from the hills behind the harbor. Large column of smoke in lower right center is from the burning USS Arizona
- - The only live news report from the attack on Pearl Harbor. Smithsonian Channel presentation of the surviving recording from an NBC radio affiliate in Honolulu on 7 December 1941, phoned through to New York as the attack unfolded.
- - The road to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. TBS archive footage of Japan preparing for the 1964 Games: the National Stadium, the Metropolitan Expressway, the Shinkansen, and the evictions and lodging shortages that followed.
- - Tokyo Renaissance 1964: the city rebuilt for the Olympics. Tokyo Metropolitan Government's own 1964 record film on the stadiums, expressways, monorail and Shinkansen built for the Games, and the water and housing shortages that came with the population boom.
- - Opening day of the Tokaido Shinkansen, 1 October 1964. TV Asahi archive of the first day of the Tokaido Shinkansen, opened days before the Tokyo Olympics, annotated shot by shot including the original 0 series carriages.
- - A Himeyuri survivor on the Battle of Okinawa. Nippon TV war archive: Hatsue Zukeran, who served in the Himeyuri student nurse corps, recounts the battle in which around 200,000 people died. Originally broadcast in 1996.
- - Yamazaki-nabisco-Cup final 2004. Tokyo 1964 Olympics stadium. Taken photo and Stiched by LonelyPlanet. 3/Nov/2004, Yamazaki Navisco Cup final game. FC Tokyo vs. Urawa Reds
- - Commodore Perry expedition LOC LC-USZ62-8127. Commodore Perry Japan expedition lithograph.
- - SonyWalkmanFamily. Sony Walkman cassette player object. Four members of the Sony Walkman line of wearable products for four different physical media: Top left: wearable CD player Sony D-E221 from year 2001 ( model year and tech data ) Top right: audio cassette walkman Sony WM-DD 33 built from 1991 to 1996 ( model year
- - 1964 Cauldron. Tokyo 1964 Olympics stadium. "Olympic Cauldron" ( 1964 Summer Olympics ) National Olympic Stadium Tokyo, Japan
- - Kusakabe Kimbei - 353 Shinto Procession. Meiji era Japan photograph 1880s. Revelers Carrying a Portable Shrine (Mikoshi) during a Festival Japanese Meiji era about 1890 Photograph, hand-tinted albumen print Image: 19.7 x 26.2 cm (7 3/4 x 10 5/16 in.)
- - Russo-Japanese War Shunga, Toshikata Mizuno. Russo-Japanese war print 1904.
- - Sony Walkman WM-B603 1989 Autoreverse. Sony Walkman cassette player object. Sony Walkman WM-B603 portable audio cassette player with Autoreverse functionality. Dolby B and C Noise Reduction built in. Year 1989.
- - Funchal, Madeira from the Curral. Commodore Perry Japan expedition lithograph. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858) stopped here to refuel and reprovision his ships en route to the Far East. Two men in the foreground are carrying goods in a hammock-like arrangement. A port with ships at anchor is visible in the distance. Pe
- - National Olympic Stadium (14314770816). Tokyo 1964 Olympics stadium. 国立霞ヶ丘陸上競技場(National Olympic Stadium)
- - Japan's colonisation of Korea. Boston College lecture on the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 and the thirty-five years of colonial rule that followed.
- - The Meiji Revolution: Japan in the age of imperialism. Episode of the Pacific Century series on the Meiji Restoration and Japan's transformation into an industrial and imperial power, companion to Mark Borthwick's text.
- - Reinventing Japan: the occupation and the new constitution. Episode of the Pacific Century series on the postwar American reform of Japan under a hastily drafted constitution, and the relationship that followed.
- - The Meiji Restoration explained by a Stanford historian. Karen Wigen, professor of history at Stanford, on the 1868 Meiji Restoration and the transformation it set in motion. Produced by Stanford's SPICE programme.
- - The cultural history of late Tokugawa Japan. Trent Maxey of Amherst College at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on the political, economic and ecological crises that spread disorder across the shogun's realm in the decades before 1868.
- - The Nanjing Massacre, part one. The China History Podcast on the run-up to the massacre that began with the fall of Nanjing in December 1937; the host notes at the outset that the subject is emotive and contested.
- - PBS: the history of the 'comfort women'. PBS POV segment accompanying the documentary The Apology, citing United Nations researchers' estimate of 200,000 to 400,000 women and girls forced into sexual slavery between 1931 and 1945.
- - Japan's first Shinkansen bullet train at the Kyoto Railway museum (48743495656). Shinkansen 0 series bullet train 1964. One of the first sights that greets you as you enter the exhibition area of the Kyoto Railway Museum in Kyoto, Japan is a driving trailer of Japan's first Shinkansen bullet train. The car is from the 0 series- the first Shinkansen trains which entered service i
- - Pretty plain-jane interiors of Japan's first Shinkansen bullet train (48743492536). Shinkansen 0 series bullet train 1964. Pretty plain-jane interiors of Japan's first Shinkansen bullet train. I have in fact traveled here to Kyoto from Tokyo by Shinkansen and I was amazed how puny the seats of the original Shinkansen look, as seen here. A picture of the business end of this Shinkan
- - Generation 80 Experience 20190108 03. Sony Walkman TPS-L2 object. Walkman à cassette Sony à l'exposition Génération 80 Experience, Liège (Belgique)
- - An American bomber crewman on the Tokyo raid. National WWII Museum oral history in which Richard Baile of the 9th Bomb Group discusses the 9 March 1945 firebombing of Tokyo and how he regards it now.
- - The high-growth era: Ikeda's income doubling plan. Yamakawa Shuppansha teaching film on Japan's rapid postwar growth, from Korean War procurement through the Ikeda cabinet's 1960 income doubling plan and the heavy-industry buildout.
- - MacArthur and the occupation of Japan. National WWII Museum lecture on Douglas MacArthur's approach to the Allied occupation, and the reforms and constitution that came out of it.
- - The firebombing of Tokyo: Al Jazeera Witness. Al Jazeera documentary on the raid launched just after midnight on 10 March 1945, which killed more than 100,000 people and destroyed a quarter of Tokyo, the most destructive air raid in history.
- - Japan's Meiji Restoration, 3 January 1868. Ohio State University's Origins project on the Meiji Restoration, which returned the emperor to a position of power for the first time in over 500 years. Written by historian Tristan Grunow.
- - Positioning the memory of Nanjing in Nanjing, Beijing and Tokyo. University of Victoria symposium paper by Professor Guoguang Wu on how the memory of the December 1937 Nanjing Massacre is constructed differently in China and Japan; the death toll remains disputed, with mainstream estimates ranging widely and the event contested within Japan.
- - Japan's lost decade: the bubble and its collapse. Documentary on the formation and bursting of the Japanese asset bubble, which peaked in 1989 and collapsed from 1991, and the long stagnation that followed.
- - The black ships: Perry's arrival seen through its pictures. Japanese cultural-history lecture on Perry's 1853 arrival, the diplomacy that followed, and the fact that the famous textbook illustration of the black ships was drawn by Wilhelm Heine, the expedition's German artist.
- - Why did a war nobody wanted begin? The Second Sino-Japanese War. Gakushuin University professor Toshikazu Inoue, a Showa historian, on why the war with China from 1937 expanded despite no clear party having sought it. Published by Kodansha.
- - Sent to the front at fifteen: a last testimony from Okinawa. Ryukyu Broadcasting's interview with Jitsukichi Furugen, 95, mobilised into the Battle of Okinawa at fifteen, recorded for the 80th anniversary of the war's end.
- - Restoring the First-Generation Sony Walkman. Repair engineer opens up the original TPS-L2 Walkman family, released in 1979, explaining the birth of the product and its internal design.
- - Imperial War Museums on the wartime 'comfort station' system. IWM curator James Bulgin explains the system of sexual trafficking across the Japanese Empire during the Second World War, from the museum's Unsilenced exhibition.
- - The forced-labour camps inside the Okinawa internment system. Nippon TV investigation, drawing on survivor testimony, into the special facilities within the wartime civilian camps in Okinawa where young men were segregated and made to work on US base construction.