The elite samurai remain in leadership, wielding power behind the “restored” emperor despite a revolution against the shogun ... In their private lives, Japanese in the Meiji era still wore Japanese ...

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 desecrating it. Japanese grand sumo ...

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 ...

The Japanese food and pharmaceutical company is putting intellectual property at the centre of its business strategy, says ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Japan’s case, its conduct will come ... with Seoul in 2015 over the designation of the “Sites of the Meiji Industrial Revolution” as a UNESCO World Heritage site. That time, too ...

In the wee hours of Wednesday, New Year's Day worshippers packed the grounds of Meiji Jingu, a major Shinto shrine in central Tokyo, praying that good luck will come their way in 2025. They began ...

The other sites are: Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution which encompasses a series of eleven properties, mainly located in the southwest of Japan. It bears testimony to the rapid ...