37} and for throwing over democratic ways, reverting to something much stronger, more Japanese—i.e., the military Shogunate or something very much like it. Paving the way for just that ...

After Commodore Matthew Perry visited Japan and cajoled the Tokugawa Shogunate to establish commercial and diplomatic ...

Portugal's black ships were vital for trade during the Sengoku period, connecting Japan to the West and China. During the Tokugawa shogunate, all Jesuits and Portuguese merchants were expelled ...

The Meiji government, which replaced the shogunate, set about developing ... and other family members burned the Stars and Stripes flag. In 1944, Japanese authorities conscripted 825 male ...

Nagoya Castle is believed to be the birthplace of the first great unifier of Japan, Oda Nobunaga. In 1609 Tokugawa Ieyasu rebuilt the castle, which remained a key power base of the shogunate until ...

Foreign ships appeared in the seas around Japan, occasionally coming to shore with the aim of establishing trade ties. The Tokugawa shogunate, in power since the beginning of the seventeenth ...

The entry of the US fleet into Tokyo Bay in 1853 and the events that followed exposed the shogunate's policy of isolation as a potential threat to the country. Western influence, and Japan's ...

Keene chose Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1436-1490), the eighth shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, as the main character for his critical biography depicting "Nihon no kokoro," or the "soul of Japan," as ...

FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima -- Three seals thought to have been used by a high official of the Tokugawa shogunate at the time U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew Perry came to Japan have been discovered ...