Nestled in the heart of Tokyo, the Meiji Shrine is a serene escape from the bustling metropolis that surrounds it. This ...

It assumes prior study of the transition from the Tokugawa (Edo) era to the Meiji era, including: Commodore Perry’s arrival and resulting treaty, 1853-1854. Unequal treaties of 1858 with the United ...

An artisan adds a finishing touch on a "koinobori" carp streamer at the workshop Takagi in the Osaka Prefecture city of Sakai ...

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 ...

From the 1870s through the 1920s, Japan underwent rapid and widespread modernization and nation-building. In the Meiji period, Japanese leaders looked to European models of constitutional monarchy, ...

Leading cartoonists in Japan joined forces to renovate a Meiji-Era (1868-1912) Western-style house in Tokyo into a manga-themed attraction. The building, called the Former Residence of Theodora ...

Join us as we take a stroll around the grounds and unravel the story of the city's transition from the samurai era to a modern society. The influence of Western culture even reached the kitchen ...

The three-story, red-brick property was built in the Meiji Era (1868-1912) on what is now Glover Street in the city’s Minami-Yamatemachi district. It was originally used by a Catholic monastic ...

More than 80 per cent belong to individuals who died in the Meiji era. The oldest identifiable grave of a Japanese man from that period belongs to a student called Onsaku Yukawa, who was ...