Each government division and organization has incorporated local color, history and culture, so there are a great variety of projects. Uekusa adds: “The Meiji Period is often associated with ...

A century and a half after the Meiji Period (1868-1912) began, we wondered what value the period had for Japan, and whether the path the country took as a result had meaning. We asked political ...

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, ...