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

A U.S. researcher of Japanese literature has published two books of “waka” poems composed by the emperor and empress of the ...

a concept the Japanese had adopted under Emperor Meiji in 1868. He was also commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Japan was ...

Gilbert and Sullivan's light opera sets the tone for the Carnival celebration of the Caliphs of Cairo at the Royal Tent ...

The people of Japan remained subjects of the emperor even as some sought greater rights as citizens. The Beginnings of Modern Constitutional Government in Meiji Japan. In 1868, a group of young ...

authorities say The shrine was established in 1920 to commemorate Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken, who are considered the founders of modern Japan. The shrine is significant in Japanese culture ...

Because his father had been a weak and sickly man, Hirohito ruled more in the shadow of his grandfather, the great Emperor Meiji , who presided over Japan's late-19th-century opening up to the West.

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that ...

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 ...

Postwar Japan had overcome the turmoil after ... But at the center of nowadays debate is the modern emperor system established during the Meiji Era (1868-1912), since a lot of its traits survive ...

Because his father had been a weak and sickly man, Hirohito ruled more in the shadow of his grandfather, the great Emperor Meiji , who presided over Japan's late-19th-century opening up to the West.