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1969 BCE
Left winged students
University Students clashed with the police and affiliated with the communist party calling for the destruction of universities. -
Period: 1955 BCE to 1969 BCE
Industrial Revolution in Japan.
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1951 BCE
Japanese Independance
Japan was restored
to legal independence in 1951 -
1872 BCE
Western clothing enters Japan
The government and through it, the army, were the first to make changes to clothing in Japanese society. A regulation of 1872 ordered the substitution of Western dress for the ceremonial robes of court nobles, and even the Emperor had appeared in a Western dress in 1870. -
Period: 1872 BCE to 1873 BCE
Iwakura Tomomi, Ito Hirobumi and Kido Koin traveled to the USA and Europe
The new Meiji government, officially and privately sponsored missions abroad such as the Iwakura Mission of 1872-1873 when Iwakura Tomomi, Ito Hirobumi and Kido Koin traveled to the USA and Europe with some 40 other Japanese government officials and around 60 students. -
Period: 1870 BCE to 1899 BCE
Western Beverages enter Japan
Beer was first brewed in Japan in the 1870s initially by foreigners in Yokohama, an operation that was later sold to Japanese entrepreneurs and was to become Kirin Beer. In Sapporo, in Hokkaido, beer was produced in 1876 by a company that was to become the modern day Sapporo Beer. The first beer hall was opened by Sapporo Beer in Ginza in Tokyo in 1899. -
1868 BCE
Meiji Restoration
The government changed from a shogunate. -
Period: 1868 BCE to 1890 BCE
The Japanese translate western books and allow teachers from foreign lands to come in and teach.
3,000 foreign teachers and technicians were invited to Japan between 1868-1890 -
1853 BCE
The U.S. Requests Japan to open their ports.
When the United States sends a naval delegation, led by Commodore Matthew Perry, to "open" Japanese ports in 1853. -
Japanese Constitution
Post-war Westernization
