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Hirota cabinet (1936–37)

A most remarkable diplomatic initiative, known as the Iwakura Mission, was launched. Senior Japanese diplomats voyaged around the world to establish new diplomatic relations with Europe and the United States and to study best practices abroad as the basis for Japanese reforms in many key areas, including the structure of government, central banking

examines how the Kōjin Club developed trade unionism and class consciousness in the midst of “Taishō democracy” and how its failure to unite engineers based on class politics led the organization and Miyamoto

1938 the government created the Asia Development Agency (kōain)

zaibatsu (shinkō koncherun) represented by Ayukawa Gisuke’s Nissan Zaibatsu,

Ming diplomacy was intended to secure the external conditions for internal stability. From that point of view, the famous voyages dispatched by the emperor Yung-lo around the Indian Ocean under the admiral Cheng-ho were an aberration, prompted perhaps by fear of attack by Tamerlane and his successors.

vitamin pioneer and Riken researcher Suzuki Umetarō (who would later become the first director of the Continental Science Institute),

While not a samurai, Jigoro trained in martial arts and became well known for his meticulous recording of the jujutsu techniques he deemed most effective. He described his work as “keeping what I felt should be kept, and discarding what I felt should be discarded.”