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 ...

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

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 ...

However, unlike Europe, the Japanese had a “revolution from above.” Members of the samurai, the elites of the old order, led the movement for change. The changes imposed by the Meiji government were a ...

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 ...

Japan has agreed to acknowledge the history of wartime Korean labor at the Sado gold and silver mine in Niigata Prefecture as part of its efforts to gain UNESCO World Cultural Heritage listing ...

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 ...

Japan’s Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance wants to seek more acquisitions overseas, where it’s prepared to spend to buy attractive assets. "There is no such thing as ‘too expensive’ when it ...

Meiji Seika Pharma has filed a lawsuit against Kazuhiro Haraguchi, a House of Representatives member from the Constitutional Democratic Party, saying his comments on the firm’s new COVID-19 ...