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Japan opened up to the West with the Meiji Restoration, and the government undertook reforms in many areas to build a modern nation-state. With modernization, the concepts of masculinity and femininity were recreated. In this paper, the historical course of the formation of modern masculinity and femininity during Japan’s period of modernization is examined by analyzing editions of Shōnen Sekai’ between 1895 and 1900. We review how classifying and gendering the children as ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ through the stories and articles served to teach children to internalize the images and embrace the concepts of masculinity and femininity promulgated by the magazine.
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This article aims to show how time, or more precisely its two dimensions: past and future, functions in political discourse. The example to be analyzed will be the early Meiji period (1868–1912) in Japan when important political and systemic changes occurred. The starting point shows the ideological significance of time, which had a function in Japanese politics of the Meiji era to legitimize the transformation. To structure the argument, the article is divided into two parts, in which we will show in turn how this process took place. The examples discussed will be the concept of ishin, which, on an ideological level, was to justify the change’s essence, and the content of the Meiji Constitution, where references to time had a crucial legitimizing function.
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