In addition to describing the Miyakojima victims as Japanese, the Meiji government also demanded compensation from the Qing government in China. The Ryukyu kingdom for many years had performed a ...

Meiji-era prostitutes, whose names are etched in stone, find a voice in a new book by Georgina Challen and Yoshiko Nakano One May day in 1884, a Japanese woman called Saki Kiya received a letter at ...