The palace itself is a blend of traditional Japanese architecture and modern influences, echoing the duality of the Meiji era's transformation. Yasukuni Shrine is a place of immense historical ...

From the 1870s through the 1920s, Japan underwent rapid and widespread modernization and nation-building. In the Meiji period, Japanese leaders looked to European models of constitutional monarchy, ...

Leading cartoonists in Japan joined forces to renovate a Meiji-Era (1868-1912) Western-style house in Tokyo into a manga-themed attraction. The building, called the Former Residence of Theodora ...

In their private lives, Japanese in the Meiji era still wore Japanese clothing and preferred Japanese-style living space. Ask students to review their predictions from the first day as to how changes ...

Himeji-jo is the finest surviving example of early 17th-century Japanese castle architecture, comprising 83 buildings with highly developed systems of defence and ingenious protection devices dating ...

From the yellowed pages of print, I felt the passion of scholars for translation during the Meiji Era (1868-1912). I appreciated the voraciousness with which the Japanese intelligentsia of the ...