In “Meiji Jibutsu Kigen” (Origins of things of the Meiji Era), author Kendo Ishii (1865-1943) recalls how his father gave ...

Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav on Friday visited Nijo-jo Castle in Kyoto during his four-day official visit to Japan ...

Meet Frenchman Jules Brunet, the real-life last samurai. Fighting alongside the Shogunate rebels who wanted to maintain ...

The Sanmon gate was built in 1621 in the early Edo Period (1603-1867) on the orders of Hidetada, the second Tokugawa shogun ... The central government designated the gate a national treasure ...

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Kyoto first became Japan’s capital in the eighth century. With its beautiful temples, philosophical gardens and elegant ...

The big picture is that the new administration is undermining a world order that kept Asia and the world secure and provided ...

A monument of a plastic model kit of a tuna has been unveiled at Shimizu reito Co., a food processing company in Shimizu Ward ...

Pump Park Vintage Photography/Alamy In the early 19th century, Japan was a feudal society ruled by the Tokugawa Shogunate ... dynasty and empire when Dom John VI moved his family and government to Rio ...