Japan Center for Asian Historical Records

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JACAR Newsletter Number 39

December 28, 2022

Event Informations from Cooperating institutions

National Archives of Japan

2022 3rd Featured Exhibition: “The Meiji Government’s Battle against Cholera and the Establishment of Public Health System in Modern Japan”

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January 14(Sat) to March 12(Sun) , 2023 9:15 AM to 5:00 PM Open daily, including weekends and holidays.	In its quest to turn Japan into a state on par with those of the West, the Meiji government studied approaches to health and sanitation in a variety of countries and took what it learned on board. This led to the establishment in 1875 (Meiji 8) of the Home Ministry’s Hygiene Bureau to serve as the government institution responsible for issues related to health and sanitation. But then, some years later, the cholera epidemic that inflicted untold losses in the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate reemerged to flourish anew in wave after wave. Japan’s newborn health and sanitation administration was pulled together through its battle with cholera. This exhibition introduces a wide range of subjects, including the origins of public health administration in Japan, the nature of the government that was dealing with cholera, and the establishment of system for preventing infectious diseases that are even more widespread than the cholera with which that government had to cope.	→Homepage(HTML)

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January 14(Sat) to March 12(Sun) , 2023
9:15 AM to 5:00 PM
Open daily, including weekends and holidays.

In its quest to turn Japan into a state on par with those of the West, the Meiji government studied approaches to health and sanitation in a variety of countries and took what it learned on board. This led to the establishment in 1875 (Meiji 8) of the Home Ministry’s Hygiene Bureau to serve as the government institution responsible for issues related to health and sanitation. But then, some years later, the cholera epidemic that inflicted untold losses in the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate reemerged to flourish anew in wave after wave. Japan’s newborn health and sanitation administration was pulled together through its battle with cholera.
This exhibition introduces a wide range of subjects, including the origins of public health administration in Japan, the nature of the government that was dealing with cholera, and the establishment of system for preventing infectious diseases that are even more widespread than the cholera with which that government had to cope.

→Homepage(HTML)