The Nihonbashi Bridge was considered the first reference node of the entire Japanese national road network at the time.

A rare handwritten hangul letter from Kim Ok-kyun, a leading figure in the 1884 Gapsin Coup, has been discovered at the ...

This episode explores how the Meiji Restoration propelled Japan from a feudal society into a modern imperial power. Through a series of sweeping military, political, and economic reforms, Japan ...

In 2020, deep in worldwide quarantine amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the developers at Sucker Punch Productions unleashed Ghost ...

I realised that maybe the whole point was to reduce myself to a speck that could float around Kyoto, just glad to be there ...

In 1871, a farmer and Civil War veteran from Gorham, Maine, named Horace Wilson, was recruited to teach in Japan as part of the Meiji Restoration. Wilson shared baseball with his students at the ...

The Meiji Restoration ensued and Japan, in a historical parable that served as a lesson to all of us in Asia, entered a period of tremendous growth. It was (and remains) ...

The Meiji Restoration, which began in 1868, was a period of rapid modernization and Westernization. It also marked the formal abolition of the samurai class. However, rather than dissipating, the ...

At the center of the Meiji Restoration was Emperor Meiji (born Mutsuhito, 1852–1912), the first monarch of the Empire of Japan who ruled from 1867 until his death in 1912. As was custom during the ...