Donald Keene holds a copy of the English version of his work "Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912," at the Kita Ward Central Library in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2011. Keene donated books and ...

The people of Japan remained subjects of the emperor even as some sought greater rights as citizens. The Beginnings of Modern Constitutional Government in Meiji Japan. In 1868, a group of young ...

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 shrine was established in 1920 to commemorate Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken, who are considered the founders of modern Japan. The shrine is significant in Japanese culture and annually ...

gloriously evidenced in “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan,” a building-wide exhibition currently on view at the Smart Museum of Art. The Emperor Meiji, restored to power in 1868 after ...

After the Tokugawa Shogunate was overthrown in 1868 and imperial rule returned to Japan, Emperor Meiji recruited people from the Western world to rapidly familiarize his country with the ...