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...ulture otherwise, through the urbanization and industrialization pressures of the [[Meiji period]]. ...n of new representatives to the board ended in a defeat for Jahana and all of his supporters, at which point Jahana appealed the election, calling on the

The Matsuda Bridge was a bridge in [[Naha]], [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]] which connected the Nakamo and Izumisaki areas across the [[Kumoji River] ...and was at that time named after Matsuda Michinobu, vice president of the bank that funded the construction.

Shibusawa Keizô was a prominent businessman and financial official of the immediate postwar period. ...daijin) in 1945-1946. He also served for a time as the head of the [[Bank of Japan]].

...art historian, the 21st head of the [[Owari Tokugawa clan]], and director of the [[Tokugawa Art Museum]] in [[Nagoya]] for many years. ...inobu was born in Tokyo on December 24, 1933 as Hotta Masayoshi, sixth son of [[Kazoku|Count]] [[Hotta Masatsune]]<!--堀田正恒-->.

[[File:Sho Jun1918.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Shô Jun in a 1918 photograph of the family.]] [[File:Grave-sho-jun.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Shô Jun in Tama Cemetery, Tokyo]]

==Timeline of 1896== * 1896/2/29 Construction of building of Bank of Japan completed.

...[Meiji period]] political activist for Okinawan rights, one of the leaders of the [[Freedom and People's Rights Movement]] (''Jiyû minken undô''). ...ture]]. He would later go on to do a similar study for sugar production in Okinawa.

*''Titles: Governor of [[Okinawa prefecture]] ([[1892]]-[[1908]]); Baron (''[[kazoku|danshaku]]'')'' ...1908]]. Earlier in his life, he was a high-ranking retainer in the service of [[Satsuma han]], and was a prominent figure in early [[Meiji period]] Okina

...huen|Fukushûen]] (Fuzhou Gardens) in [[Naha]], [[Okinawa]], a reproduction of a famous garden in Fuzhou]] ...and the chief intermediary point for Ryukyuan officials traveling between Okinawa and [[Beijing]].

...ge:Bettelheim.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Monument to Bettelheim at [[Gokoku-ji (Okinawa)|Gokoku-ji]] in [[Naha]].]] ...Okinawan language|Okinawan]]-English dictionary, and the first translation of the Bible into Okinawan. He appointed himself translator for [[Commodore Ma

...cal importance - into an upper tier of National Treasures and a lower tier of Important Cultural Properties. ...ung-il Pai, AAS Roundtable, "Who Moved My Masterpiece?...Cultural Heritage of Kyoto," Association for Asian Studies annual conference, San Diego, March 2

...crises, at times. Systems which served as precursors for a "modern" system of banks and paper currency, along with futures markets and other such economi [[File:Wadokaichin.jpg|right|thumb|400px|An example of a ''wadô kaichin'' coin, on display at the British Museum]]

...om [[Okinawan immigration to Hawaii|Okinawa]]. Japanese quickly became one of the largest and most influential ethnic groups in the islands, remaining so ...lands by Westerners. The Japanese government, meanwhile, saw this as a way of relieving political/social tensions caused by rural poverty (and thus avoid

...0px|Statue of Emperor Meiji at [[Naminoue Shrine]] in [[Okinawa prefecture|Okinawa]], identified as ''kokka'' (国家), or, "The State."]] ...culture, and society, and marked the emergence of the modern nation-state of Japan.