This episode explores how the Meiji Restoration propelled Japan from a feudal society into a modern imperial power. Through a series of sweeping military, political, and economic reforms, Japan ...

The blockade of Japan was on in earnest. Their fat southern empire cut off and written off, the Japanese were trying feverishly to stockpile the home islands against invasion day with raw ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

The Imperial House of Japan is not a normal family. It is the oldest existing hereditary monarchy in the world, a mysterious clan descended from the gods of Japanese mythology.

These tankers, which handle a quarter of all LNG shipments, are only the tip of Japan’s increasingly dominant gas empire. With the enthusiastic backing of the government, corporate Japan now ...

In one of the more lavish ceremonies of 19th-century Japan, a teenage Emperor Meiji arrived at Shimbashi in the new imperial capital of Tokyo and embarked on something entirely unprecedented for ...

After the empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, fear went into overdrive. The West Coast felt much too exposed, and its Japanese population, native-born, naturalized, or ...