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Modern Japanese historiography arose out of a fusion of Western historiography, as introduced by the German Ludwig Riess to the newly founded history department of Tokyo Imperial University in 1887, with the Chinese scholarly tradition of evidential research (kaozheng 考證 or kōshō-gaku 考證學), which had been established in Japan since the Edo period (1603-1868).[1]
Modern Japanese historiography emerged from the history department of Tokyo Imperial University.[2] From 1887 (the date of the foundation of the history department) to 1902, the German Ludwig Riess taught the methods of scientific historiography he had learned in his home country.