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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 Tokugawa Bakufu fell on this date, restoring Imperial rule under the young Emperor Meiji. During nearly seven centuries, ...

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 ...

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

Emperor Meiji (1852-1912), the first emperor of modern Japan. Aiko, 22, the daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, nodded in acknowledgement at the crowd of around 600 well-wishers as ...

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.

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 ...