With Japan’s goal of making a competitive nation of itself in the Meiji period, its many reforms and changes were directed towards the nation’s nationalism. Its inorganization, however may have hurt their goal more than enforced it in the case of poor families and their daughters. According to Tsurumi, many…

Q. Why do you want to study the social and cultural history of modern Japan right now? #HIEA115 A. In high school I was interested in Japanese and decided to take a Japanese course at a local community college. After that I have continued taking classes through college and am…