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, ...

ODAWARA, Kanagawa -- A Western style building constructed near Sagami Bay in this east Japan city in 1937 was a vacation home of a Meiji period ... by Akihiro Ogomori, Photo and Video Department ...

This area was ravaged by three large fires between the Edo period (1603-1867 ... involved in the remodeling. (Japanese original by Minoru Kanazawa, Kyushu Photo and Video Department) The Japanese ...