The upcoming visit of Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus to Japan later this month carries great symbolic and strategic ...

Built to honor Japan’s Emperor Meiji (1867-1912), the Meiji Shrine and its 178-acre park are among Tokyo’s main attractions.Credit...Nattee Chalermtiragool/Alamy Stock Photo Supported by By ...

The government of Japan announced that Victor J. Dzau, president of the National Academy of Medicine, was awarded the Order ...

One highlight is a replica of the grand piano Emperor, presented to Emperor Meiji at the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair, symbolizing the bond between Austria and Japan. Moreover, depicting the future ...

The Emperor of Japan announced on April 29, the conferral of one of the highest awards the nation of Japan gives to a non-citizen of Japan, The Order of the Rising Sun with Golden Rays, to former San ...

Japan was in the midst of a very tumultuous period. The Meiji Emperor was trying to modernise and westernise the country, ...

In 1871, a farmer and Civil War veteran from Gorham, Maine, named Horace Wilson, was recruited to teach in Japan as part of ...

For Freya Stillman’s history project, she learns that her hometown’s famous hero, Benjamin Wellstone, is not who the town ...

On our right was Nijo Castle, where, Nishibori informed me, the Meiji Restoration began. It was here, in 1868, that the last shogun, Yoshinobu Tokugawa, returned political power to Emperor Meiji ...