Modern Japan: Meiji to Today
The samurai class was abolished in 1871. But the values that drove it —
duty, restraint, deference, perfection — never went away. They moved
inward, into how Japanese people work, queue, bow, apologize, and run
companies.
Articles in this series Why Japanese Are Always on Time Where Did Japan's Shame Culture Come From? Why Japanese Bow So Much Is Bushido Still Real in Modern Japan? Tokyo The center for Meiji state-building, imperial institutions, postwar reconstruction, and modern urban Japan.
Hiroshima A necessary destination for modern Japanese history, war memory, reconstruction, and peace education.
Yokohama A clear travel link for treaty-port history, Meiji internationalization, railways, and modern urban culture.
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