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Tomioka Silk Mill (1872)

1872 — The Meiji government opens a model silk-reeling mill at Tomioka. French engineer Paul Brunat designs it, and its machines come from France. Young women recruited from samurai and farming families learn the technique here so they can spread it.

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Type
Turning point
Chapter
Industrialisation of Meiji Japan (chapter 10 of Industrial Revolution)
Atlas
The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia
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