A formal ceremony heralded the start of the Japan's sumo wrestling season at the Meiji Jingu shrine on Tuesday, two months ...

“First-year men” referred to Japanese immigrants who arrived in Honolulu in the first year of the reign of Emperor Meiji. And, they were the first group of people from Japan to board ships and ...

One finding indicates that Japanese artisans were involved in embroidery for the dress, one of several worn by the consort to Emperor Meiji (1852-1912). Although still undergoing repairs ...

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 ...

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 ...

Staff at the Meiji Jingu shrine, constructed in 1920 to honour the spirits of Emperor Meiji and his wife Empress Shoken, discovered the damage the same day and alerted police, who arrested Hayes ...

On the surface, the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and restoration of Emperor Meiji suggests a momentous transformation of power within Japan. However, according to Andrew Gordon, scholar of Japanese ...

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 ...

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.

Tensions arose between the growing interest in liberal political thinking and the established political context, established through the Meiji Constitution of 1889, of a constitutional monarchy, ...

And before that, it was the residence for some of Japan's most important figures, including Emperor Meiji (credited for modernizing Japan) and rulers during the Edo Period (the time period before ...