Heimin
merchants.[1]
History
During the Meiji Restoration, Japan began a period of rapid industrialisation and Westernisation. By the 1880s, the samurai, who were once de facto in control of Japan, had lost a major part of their significance and power, which coincided with the rise of the heimin class.[2] In accordance with the new period of Westernisation, Japan's social values changed, and economic status was eventually considered more important than a person's family history.
democratisation.[6]
See also
- Heimin Shinbun, a socialist newspaper active in Japan from 1903 to 1905
- Kazoku, Japanese nobility from the Meiji period
References
- ^ Bowen, Roger (1984). Rebellion and Democracy in Meiji Japan. University of California Press. p. 146.
- ^ Xu Lu, Sidney (2019). The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961. Cambridge University Press. p. 104.
- ^ Xu Lu, Sidney (2019). The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961. Cambridge University Press. p. 105.
- ^ Tierney, Robert (2015). Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kotoku Shusui and Japan's First Anti-Imperialist Movement. University of California Press. p. 105.
- ^ Xu Lu, Sidney (2019). The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961. Cambridge University Press. p. 106.
- ^ Tierney, Robert (2015). Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kotoku Shusui and Japan's First Anti-Imperialist Movement. University of California Press. p. 101.