How fashion served as a tool in transforming Japan into a modernized nation, maintaining gender roles, and acclimating Japanese immigrants to a foreign land.  The Meiji Restoration and Era  The Rokumeikan after its completion in 1883. Source: Wikimedia Commons, “Rokumeikan.jpg.”  In the late nineteenth … Continue reading From Tokyo Diplomacy to Boca Raton Fields: The Journey of Japanese Fashion