A formal ceremony heralded the start of the Japan's sumo wrestling season at the Meiji Jingu shrine on Tuesday, two months after a U.S. man was arrested for desecrating it. Japanese grand sumo ...

“First-year men” referred to Japanese immigrants who arrived in Honolulu in the first year of the reign of Emperor Meiji. And, they were the first group of people from Japan to board ships and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In January 1904, the situation between Japan and Russia had grown tense. The Emperor Meiji is deeply concerned, for Russia has started to build an invincible fortress at Port Arthur, and the ...

The shrine was established in 1920 to commemorate Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken, who are considered the founders of modern Japan. Grand sumo champion Yokozuna Terunofuji wears the coveted tsuna ...