MODERN JAPAN

SOURCES TO CONSIDER

Another overview of Taisho Period

(e-book): Minichiello, Sharon. 1998. Japan’s Competing Modernities : Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=39169&site=eds-live.

ART

Suzuki, Sadami. "TANIZAKI JUN'ICHIRŌ AS CULTURAL CRITIC." Japan Review, no. 7 (1996): 23-32. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25790963.

Volk, Alicia. "Yorozu Tetsugorō and Taishō-Period Creative Prints: When the Japanese Print Became Avant-Garde." Impressions, no. 26 (2004): 44-65. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42597828.

Rosenbaum, Roman. "Towards a Graphical Representation of Japanese Society in the Taishō Period: Jiji Manga in Shinseinen." Japan Review, no. 23 (2011): 177-97. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41304928.

Weisenfeld, Gennifer. 1996. “Mavo’s Conscious Constructivism.” Art Journal 55 (3): 64. doi:10.2307/777767. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=9610161435&site=eds-live

EDUCATION

Borland, Janet. "Capitalising on Catastrophe: Reinvigorating the Japanese State with Moral Values through Education following the 1923 Great Kantô Earthquake." Modern Asian Studies 40, no. 4 (2006): 875-907. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3876637.

Yamasaki, Yoko. 2010. “The Impact of Western Progressive Educational Ideas in Japan: 1868-1940.” History of Education 39 (5): 575. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edb&AN=53779900&site=eds-live.

Holca, Irina. 2016. “Insularity and Imperialism: The Borders of the World in the Japanese and Taiwanese Kokugo Readers during the Taishō Era.” Japan Forum 28 (1): 32. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edb&AN=112640663&site=eds-live.

WOMEN'S HISTORY

Chronicle of Higher Education. 2004. “The ‘Modern’ Japanese Woman,” May 21. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=13267970&site=eds-live.

Moga, Factory Girls, Mothers, and Wives: What Did It Mean to Be a Modern Woman in Japan during the Meiji and Taishō Periods?

(search for section on Taisho Period) Akiko, Niwa, and Tomiko Yoda. "The Formation of the Myth of Motherhood in Japan." U.S.-Japan Women's Journal. English Supplement, no. 4 (1993): 70-82. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42772053.

Piovesana, Gino. "Men and Social Ideas of the Early Taisho Period." Monumenta Nipponica 19, no. 1/2 (1964): 111-29. doi:10.2307/2383285. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2383285

POLITICAL HISTORY

Wright, Scott. 2019. “Japan Introduces Suffrage for Men.” Salem Press Encyclopedia. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ers&AN=89315129&site=eds-live.

Schencking, J. Charles. "Catastrophe, Opportunism, Contestation: The Fractured Politics of Reconstructing Tokyo following the Great Kantô Earthquake of 1923." Modern Asian Studies 40, no. 4 (2006): 833-73. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3876636.

Han, Jung-Sun N. "Envisioning a Liberal Empire in East Asia: Yoshino Sakuzō in Taisho Japan." Journal of Japanese Studies33, no. 2 (2007): 357-82. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25064724.

Large, Stephen S. "The Romance of Revolution in Japanese Anarchism and Communism during the Taishō Period." Modern Asian Studies 11, no. 3 (1977): 441-67. http://www.jstor.org/stable/311507.

ECONOMICS

Morikawa, Hidemasa. "The Organizational Structure of Mitsubishi and Mitsui Zaibatsu, 1868-1922: A Comparative Study." The Business History Review 44, no. 1 (1970): 62-83. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3112590.

Uasuoka, Shigeaki, and Shigeaki Yasuoka. "The Social Background of Zaibatsu in Japan." Business and Economic History 6 (1977): 84-90. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23702610.

Frankl, Jennifer L. "An Analysis of Japanese Corporate Structure, 1915-1937." The Journal of Economic History 59, no. 4 (1999): 997-1015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2566685.

Yamamura, Kozo. "The Founding of Mitsubishi: A Case Study in Japanese Business History." The Business History Review 41, no. 2 (1967): 141-60. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3112564.

Nolte, Sharon Hamilton. "Individualism in Taishō Japan." The Journal of Asian Studies 43, no. 4 (1984): 667-84. doi:10.2307/2057149. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2057149