focusing on the way Japan’s leaders positioned their country in the world, from the Meiji period, through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and into the period of stunning growth ...
Now that summer has loosened its torrid grip, a trip to this outdoor museum in the western Tokyo suburbs is a perfect way to ...
Steve Lee Hayes carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested on suspicion of property ...
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?The Meiji Restoration of 1868 ended the Bakufu period. A bad economy and the 1853 visit by Commodore Perry’s “Black Ships,” ...
The Thomas Balch Library on Tuesday displayed a new art collection called “Echoes of the East: Selections from the Asian Art Collection of Morven Park.” ...
Shibusawa served Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japan's last shogun. After the Meiji Restoration, Shibusawa worked for the new government before founding the National Bank, the first in Japan. He was said to ...
Japan has 47 prefectures, administrative divisions ranking immediately below the national government. They were created following the Meiji restoration of 1868, often with borders matching the ...
The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...
A mountain man loses his connection to nature in this strange but stunning portrait of modernity set in the shadow of the ...
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