Unlike many shrines, Kashihara Jingu is bare of paint. That absence of colour as well as the massive wooden pillars and ...

Stops and Shops: Takeshita Street, home to Tokyo’s streetwear and kawaii culture. Takashimaya, 20 minutes north on the metro ...

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. The family is also ...

After Commodore Matthew Perry visited Japan and cajoled the Tokugawa Shogunate to establish commercial and diplomatic relations, Japanese society was riven by divisions between modernizers and ...

Four years hence Japan would defeat vast, backward Russia and emerge as a foremost Pacific power. His grandfather, the reigning emperor, was the bold, shrewd Emperor Meiji, in whose name the ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun A garden that can be seen from a hall of the main building In the main building of Meiji Kinenkan, called the “Emperor’s Dining Hall,” the Emperor dined with foreign royalty and ...

(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) FILE - Japan’s Princess Aiko, the daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, arrives to mark the 110th anniversary of the death of the wife of former emperor ...

Meiji-seitei), was the 122nd Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 3 February 1867 until his death on 30 July 1912. He presided over the Meiji era, a time of ...

Japan today just wouldn't be the same without Emperor Meiji. To say he was influential is an understatement! Emperor Meiji rose to the highest seat in 1867. This was a critical time in both Japanese ...