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Twelve years later a partnership was created among the museum, the Rouse Co., a real estate development firm, and the city and state of New York. The intention: to extend the museum's influence over the entire Seaport area, incorporating a marketplace that would pay the staggering cost of...
Victorious over the shogun's forces were a group of tribal clans, mostly from the regions of Choshu and Satsuma in southwestern Japan. Young, ambitious, aggressive, these clan leaders had no intention of really restoring imperial rule, and they themselves were to govern as a new oligarchy for the...
Scarcely a half-century had passed since the barbarians aboard Perry's black ships had humiliated the shoguns, and now Japan was a politely pugnacious power. The Meiji Restoration (the Emperor died in 1912) was a miracle of national self-regeneration, but the lessons imperfectly learned from the imperialist...
Japan learned that lesson, in reverse, not once but twice. After the Meiji Restoration, the new imperial government sent study missions to the U.S., France and Prussia, then tried to set up a national education system based on Western liberal utilitarian thought. The experiment was short-lived. Much the same...
The U.S., too, spoke out. Although the Reagan Administration has long given tacit support to the Chilean regime for its anti-Communist stance, some U.S. officials now fear that Pinochet's failure to promote democracy could plunge the country into civil war. The State Department specifically condemned the arrest...