The Japanese island of Hashima was closed in 1974 and fell into disrepair, but since the 2000s, it has been reborn as a ...

Looking weird for fashion’s sake is nothing new. You don’t even have to pull too far back on the trends of the times to start ...

The Meiji Era was one of great renewal for Japan, where swords and killing were outlawed. However, many survivors from the time of Revolution still live, lurking in the shadows and waiting for a ...

"Old" is a relative term; not everything millennials and previous generations hold sacred should be considered ancient just ...

The reforms he introduced would be on par with the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the Industrial Revolution in Europe, and the China makeover by Deng Xiaoping. As he was not by temperament a person ...

Presented at CES 2025, a spoon from Japan makes it possible to enhance ... while retaining the sensation of taste could be a real revolution. Over the years, Kirin has diversified its activities ...

From James II to the Seven Year War This “lighter-handed rule,” and even the toleration of multiple faiths, could have been derailed if the so-called Glorious Revolution had ... Chosu and Satsuma in ...

Thanks to the 1902 treaty with England, Tokyo had a free hand to attack in Asia, where it was already becoming the alter ego ...

“Meiji” means “enlightened rule,” and its aim was ... The main symbolic difference between the Russian Revolution and the Japanese Restoration, is that whereas the Tsar and his family were executed, ...

Historians talk of the moment in history as one in which the Meiji Emperor realized that Japan would likely be ... some ways as having launched a mini-revolution in public affairs, law, and ...

Here in the 80th year since the end of the war, if we look back on history, Japan, under the centralized state system of the Meiji Revolution aimed for "a strong Japan" under the slogan, "Rich nation, ...