One hundred years of modern Japan

This brief background article on the significance of the Meiji Era (1868-1912) in Japanese history has been prepared by the IEEE Far-Eastern office, based on research conducted at the National Diet Library, Tokyo . Credit should be given also to the excellent lead article on "Japan\´s Decisive Century" in the 1967 Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year, written by Shigeru Yoshida (prime-minister of Japan 1946-1954). Photographs are courtesy of the Japan Overseas Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (KDD).