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The Black Sash was founded on 19 May 1955 by six middle-class white women, Jean Sinclair, Ruth Foley, Elizabeth McLaren, Tertia Pybus, Jean Bosazza and Helen Newton-Thompson. [1] The organisation was founded as the Women’s Defence of the Constitution League but was eventually shortened by the press as the Black Sash due to the women's habit ...
Yasuke is the earliest known African to appear in Japanese historical records, though few records exist. Much of what is known about Yasuke appears in fragmentary accounts in the letters of the Jesuit missionary Luís Fróis, Ōta Gyūichi's Shinchō Kōki (信長公記, Nobunaga Official Chronicle), Matsudaira Ietada's Matsudaira Ietada Nikki (松平家忠日記, Matsudaira Ietada Diary ...
The National Museum of Nature and Science (国立科学博物館, Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan) is in the northeast corner of Ueno Park in Tokyo. The museum has exhibitions on pre- Meiji science in Japan. It is the venue of the taxidermied bodies of the legendary dogs Hachikō and Taro and Jiro. A life-size blue whale model and a steam ...
The National Museum of Ethnology (国立民族学博物館, Kokuritsu Minzoku-gaku Hakubutsukan) is one of the major museums in Japan. [1] It is Japan's largest research institute in the academic disciplines of humanities and social sciences, which was established in 1974 and opened to the public in 1977. It is built on the former grounds of ...
The National Art Center, Tokyo. National Film Archive of Japan. National Museum of Art, Osaka. National Museum of Ethnology (Japan) National Museum of Japanese History. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. National Museum of Nature and Science. National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty.
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science was founded in 1932 as a non-profit foundation through an endowment granted by Emperor Shōwa.JSPS became a quasi-governmental organization in 1967 under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (Monbusho), and after 2001 under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
National Speleological Society (NSS) – Organization for exploration, conservation, and study of caves in the United States; Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) – U.S. non-profit organization; Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) – American scientific organization National Society of Consulting Soil Scientists (NSCSS) – dissolved
A national museum can be a museum maintained and funded by a national government. In many countries it denotes a museum run by the central government , while other museums are run by regional or local governments. [2]