Social mobility refers to the movement of individuals from one socio-economic strata to another, followed by a change in their social status. In today's world, social mobility is largely driven by ...

For Japan, 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration; the name given to the events of 1868, which saw the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate (or bakufu) and the creation of a new ...

For more than 250 years Japan has thrived under the Tokugawa Shogunate, a regime that maintains peace through a rigid social ...

The year 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of Meiji Restoration in Japan. Initiated in 1868, Meiji Restoration was a top-down capitalism reform, which not only made Japan the first country in Asia to ...

Inspired by the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research forum on "Japan Since the Meiji Restoration," political scientist Ryota Murai reflects on the Japanese government's 1968 celebration of the Meiji ...

IN January 1868 some young samurai and their merchant sympathisers overthrew Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate and with it seven centuries of feudal rule. The so-called Meiji restoration was the cue for such ...