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, ...

Asia Society presents a fresh look at the art of Japan’s Meiji era (1868-1912), a period of unprecedented cultural ... including American presidents George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant and Benjamin ...

Leading cartoonists in Japan joined forces to renovate a Meiji-Era (1868-1912) Western-style house in Tokyo into a manga-themed attraction. The building, called the Former Residence of Theodora ...

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 ...

A U.S. researcher of Japanese literature has published two books of “waka” poems composed by the emperor and empress of the Meiji Era (1868-1912) with assistance from his poet wife. It was ...

UKIHA, Fukuoka -- The former residence of a wealthy family here is a showcase of elaborate design, speaking to the present from its presumed completion time in the late Meiji era (1868-1912).

May 1 marked the start of the Reiwa era in Japan, and people across the country ... Watch Video 1:41 Meiji shrine, dedicated to the great-great-grandfather of the new Emperor, attracted many ...