Kurahashi’s writing on education influenced early childhood education and care in Japan, while Nishida was one of the prominent philosophers of Kurahashi’s time.

Before cuneiform, however, humans used a simpler writing system called proto-cuneiform that appeared around 3350 to 3000 B.C.E. These early writing systems featured symbols that were pressed or ...

“Blind in Early Modern Japan” was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2022. Covering the Edo Period (1600-1868) when Japan was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate, Tan examines how blind ...