Capitalist Japan (Meiji Restoration to World War II)

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• The retrospective history in general of Nippon (Japan)

Review of Anne Walthall, The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Tasekl and the Meiji Restoration

Reviewed for H-Japan by Carol Tsang, [13 April 1999]. Book chronicles the life of Matsuo Taseko (1811-1894), the daughter and wife of village headmen, who was also one of only six women awarded posthumous court rank for their activities during the Meiji Restoration. She became an icon to later generations of loyalists, who remade her in the image of good wife, wise mother as well as into a model of emperor-centered piety.

Meiji Era Christians' remains unearthed

Mainichi Shimbun, Sunday 16 May 1999. The 40 remains of what scientists believe were Christians persecuted by the Meiji government, were discovered at a construction site. In 1868, the Meiji government issued a ban on Christianity and then deported some 3,400 Christians from Nagasaki to 21 provinces—then called han—across the nation in a bid to have them change their religion.