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The Mudan incident of 1871 (Chinese: 八瑤灣事件、Japanese: 宮古島島民遭難事件、Japanese: 琉球漂流民殺害事件) was the massacre of 54 Ryukyuan sailors in Qing-era Taiwan who wandered...
haihan-chiken) in the Empire of Japan and its replacement by a system of prefectures in1871 was the culmination of the Meiji Restoration begun in 1868, the...
(岩倉使節団, Iwakura Shisetsudan) was a Japanese diplomatic voyage to the United States and Europe conducted between 1871 and 1873 by leading statesmen and...
currency after the US dollar and the euro. The New Currency Act of 1871 introduced Japan's modern currency system, with the yen defined as 1.5 g (0.048 troy...
Aizu/Wakamatsu. In1871, all remaining feudal domains (han) were also transformed into prefectures, so that prefectures subdivided the whole country. In several...
The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji...
and the third French military mission to Japan (1884–89). However, after France's defeat in1871 the Japanese government switched to the victorious Germans...
Population Tables as of January 1, 1874 (Japanese only) Population of Japan as of August 29, 1871 (Japanese only) DSpace at Waseda University Kokudaka...
In Feudal Japan between 1185 CE and 1868 CE, vassals offered their loyalty and services (military or other) to a landlord in exchange for access to a portion...
Japanese writer Seishi (聖師)-Onisaburo Deguchi (出口王仁三郎) (1871–1948), Japanese spiritual leader The Japanese term for Worship of the living Mahasthamaprapta This...
Expedition, was an American military action in Korea that took place predominantly on and around Ganghwa Island in1871. Frederick Low, the American ambassador...
Christianity inJapan is among the nation's minority religions in terms of individuals who state an explicit affiliation or faith. In 2022, there are 1...
Although women inJapan were recognized as having equal legal rights to men after World War II, economic conditions for women remain unbalanced. Modern...
The Mauser Model 1871 adopted as the Gewehr 71 or Infanterie-Gewehr 71, or "Infantry Rifle 71" ("I.G.Mod.71" was stamped on the rifles themselves) was...
are just two reasons why Japan has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. The life expectancy from birth inJapan improved significantly after...
had worked as lady-in-waiting to Empress Shōken from 1871 to 1879. She adapted the clothing worn by ladies-in-waiting at the Japanese imperial court, which...
The year 1871in architecture involved some significant events. Abraham Hirsch is appointed chief architect of the French city of Lyon. Martin & Chamberlain...
Tales of Old Japan (1871) is an anthology of short stories compiled by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale, writing under the better known...
British postal system, and founded Japan's postal system in1871. The first stamps were issued in April 1871, in a set of four covering the different...
shirabe) was a law inJapan that forcibly registered people in Shinto Shrines. It was implemented by the Meiji government from 1871 (Meiji 4) to 1873....
was a French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, the French National...
Provinces of Japan (令制国, Ryōseikoku) were first-level administrative divisions of Japan from the 600s to 1868. Provinces were established inJapanin the late...
August 1871 – 23 June 1908) was a Japanese author of novels and romantic poetry during the Meiji period, noted as one of the inventors of Japanese naturalism...
emperor. In December 1871, a Ryukyuan ship was shipwrecked on Taiwan and the crew were massacred. In 1874, using the incident as a pretext, Japan launched...