In the latter part of the 19th century, known as the Bakumatsu and Meiji eras, Japan rapidly left behind its feudal samurai sword-swinging days and embraced modernization. The Meiji emperor ...

Japan’s traditional architecture has much ... This process traces back to at least the 19th century, said Mazereeuw, explaining how the widespread destruction of new European-style brick and ...

A new song connects a 19th-century story of a couple ending their ... The lovers’ deaths came at a time when Japan was transitioning out of a strict hierarchal society. The government of modern ...

Sugoroku, Japanese board games printed and published on newsprint, have been popular since the 19th century, if not earlier. This style of game is thought to have originated in China in the 6th ...

Becoming Modern: Early 20th-Century Japan through Primary Sources offers secondary teachers seven lessons that examine a critical period in Japanese and world history: the period of Japan’s ...

In a discovery that may reshape our understanding of Japan’s extinct wildlife, 13-year-old Hinako Komori has brought a ...

By the the end of the 19th Century, Japan decided to open its borders again. In 1858, the fumie practice was abolished in Nagasaki. In 1873, Japan's long ban on Christianity was finally lifted ...

It was also the lowest number of births on record in Japan since the 19th Century. In the 1970s, that figure stood at more than two million. In a statement, Oji Holdings said its subsidiary ...

Japan’s new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ... who have perished in conflicts since the late 19th century. But this includes senior military and political figures convicted by an international ...

The premiere of a 19th century play directed by John Malkovich was performed in an almost empty Sofia National Theatre after ...

So 19th-century British Empire. Maybe Palmerston was right, though. Japan’s largest steel company, Nippon Steel, wants to acquire U.S. Steel — once a symbol of American industrial and technological ...

Over the weekend, Team Ninja released Update 1.08 for Rise of the Ronin, adding support for the upcoming PlayStation 5 Pro.