It turned out to be the official seal used by the Tokugawa Shogunate when it signed the 1858 Japan-U.S. Treaty of Amity and Commerce. Iehiro said it was time the family made a proper inventory of ...

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

Sir George Sansom’s history of Japan was first published in 1932 and used in U.S. college classrooms into the 1980s. In it, he described the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) as an era of oppressive “feudal ...

The writing for 'Shogun Season 2' is complete. The series, known for its historical drama, impressed at the 2025 Critics ...

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

After years of bitter strife, the aging samurai lord Tokugawa Ieyasu finally wrested power from Japan's many warring clans and unified them at the turn of the 17th century. Upon being proclaimed ...