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Dissemination of Knowledge and Technology: The Extensive Range of Exhibitions in Japan in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2020)

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The first domestic exposition organized by the Japanese government was held in Tōkyō in 1877. Despite the ongoing Satsuma Rebellion, a revolt of disaffected samurai against the new Meiji Government, the First National Industrial Exhibition was declared open by Ōkubo Toshimichi (1830–1878), the first Minister for Home Affairs, on 21 August. The launch marked the decision by the government to put greater emphasis on industry than had been the case in the first decade after the Meiji Restoration. There were five national industrial exhibitions held during the Meiji era (1868–1912). One of the aims of holding these exhibitions

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Authors & Contributors
Ronzon, Laura
Maria Griemmert
Siderer, Yona
Mathias Vigouroux
Yajima, Michiko
Takeda, Junko Thérèse
Journals
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Women's History Review
Revue Économiques
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
Liverpool University Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
Stanford University Press
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Ippan Zaidan Hojin Nagoya Daigaku Shuppankai
Harvard University Asia Center
Concepts
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Science and government
Exhibitions and fairs
Industry
Science and politics
People
Sōtetsu, Ishizaka
Youan, Udagawa
Siebold, Philipp Franz von
Peter I, the Great, Tsar of Russia
Naumann, Edmund
Gümbel, Carl Wilhelm
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
Japan
France
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Germany
Institutions
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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