Army Maj. Glenn Simpkins, right, G-8 deputy chief of staff from Camp Zama, and other U.S. Forces Japan officers wash their hands before entering the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo on Wednesday.

Then there’s Meiji-mura in central Japan northeast of Nagoya. The open-air museum pays homage to Western-inspired architecture that appeared in Japan as it opened its borders to foreign trade ...

Credit: Kitazawa Rakuten (1876 – 1955) Subscribe for ads-free reading For Japan, 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration; the name given to the events of 1868, which saw the ...

New MFAH show offers a history lesson through 50 years of modern Japan with nearly 200 artworks Some of the objects and paintings from 'Meiji Modern' have never been on public display before.

Japan's 91-year-old former Emperor Akihito has been hospitalized to adjust his heart medication, palace officials say.

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 ...

Urban transformation, boundless enthusiasm for new technologies, and rising geopolitical tensions: these circumstances defined Japan’s Meiji era (1868–1912) as much as they describe our own. While the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Princeton University History Professor Linda Colley discussed the geopolitical and economic effects of Japanese modernization following the Meiji ...