A Western style building constructed near Sagami Bay in this east Japan city in 1937 was a vacation home of a Meiji period ...

The three-story, red-brick property was built in the Meiji Era (1868-1912 ... It accommodated a monastic order, a school for non-Japanese children and an orphanage. After World War II, the ...

In their private lives, Japanese in the Meiji era still wore Japanese clothing and preferred Japanese-style living space. Ask students to review their predictions from the first day as to how changes ...

From the 1870s through the 1920s, Japan underwent rapid and widespread modernization and nation-building. In the Meiji period, Japanese leaders looked to European models of constitutional monarchy, ...

The house was reportedly constructed at the end of the Meiji era. A building tag stating that ... who were involved in the remodeling. (Japanese original by Minoru Kanazawa, Kyushu Photo and ...

Asia Society presents a fresh look at the art of Japan’s Meiji era (1868-1912), a period of unprecedented cultural and technological transition, in the landmark exhibition Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of ...

Because of the provision, which has been carried over from the old nationality law enacted in the Meiji Era (1868-1912), more than 25,000 Japanese have renounced their citizenship since 1985.

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 ...

Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI Jan. 7 (UPI) --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 ...