The government has expressed deep regret over Japan not implementing follow-up measures after listing the latter's modern ...

Continuities in this transition such as: Proto-industrialization in the Tokugawa era sets the stage for Meiji industrial development. The elite samurai remain in leadership, wielding power behind the ...

Japan had promised earlier to take steps to remember the victims, including many Koreans who were forced into hard labor, ...

Actually, however, this peaceful landscape was a battleground during the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877, which pitted the Meiji government army against the rebellious Saigo army. Since the task is so ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...