The Meiji era follows two centuries of Japan's near-isolation, ... When American naval officer Commodore Matthew Perry was assigned to force the opening of Japanese ports to U.S. trade by ...

Japanese chocolate bars are usually packaged sideways with a picture of the chocolate on the outside; Meiji broke tradition. Their chocolate bars are designed to be displayed vertically. The boxes ...

“Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan” is a building-wide exhibition and much of it shows a fusion of old and new, traditional and modern, Japanese and foreign. Skip to content.

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 ...

Robert Whiting, an American author and journalist who has lived in Japan for most of the last 50 years and has written several books on Japanese culture, first visited Meiji Jingu Stadium in the ...

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