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Transformation of Japan into a modern state - Meiji Reform
Havlík, Jakub ; Kučera, Tomáš (advisor) ; Střítecký, Vít (referee)
This study is about Japan's transformation caused by intervention of Western Civilization, which made Japan suffer partial loss of state sovereignty. The power structure, which brooked the loss inflicted by strong Western Civilization, crumbled and new government tried to correct this loss for taking back Japan's full sovereignty. In the process of dealing with the West, Japan started to collect knowledge and take over some concepts, which caused changes in japanese national identity and its shaping close to the model of Western Civilization. The objective of this study is to point out that this transformation is best and enough thoroughly explained by the changes in japanese national identity and taking over knowledge, ideas, principles and intellectual concepts of Western Civilization.
Education Issue in the First Half of the Meiji Period: Discussion on Its Goals and Means
Zellerinová, Tereza ; Labus, David (advisor) ; Sýkora, Jan (referee)
The essay is concerned with education in the first twenty years of the Meiji era. At first there is a short account on situation of the education and the main govermental proposals concerning it. The main part of the essay is dealing with the discussion among Meiji era intellectuals about the goals of the education and means to achieve them. Bacause of the importance of the western influence the essay concentrates on the intellectuls with western experience gathered in a group called Meirokusha.

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