Based on noticing the incompleteness of archives of Korean buraku and Okinawan women and men in the Japanese countryside, I have realized that it is important for historians to know the actual experiences that these people went through. The archive information may not include the personal experiences of the people…

According to the readings of Anderson and McClintock, it is clear that gender had a major role in the building of a nation. Tsurumi does agree that gender, specifically women, did contribute greatly to the nationalism in Japan, and because of the Meiji Civil Code women were able to working…

I was born in a Japanese household so I have been around many social and cultural things in Japan. I am very familiar with pop culture of modern Japan but I have not looked deeply into the social and cultural history of Japan. By studying this material, I will be able to see the bigger picture of how Japan turned into the country it is today.