Tomorrow, November 3rd, is 'Culture Day'.The Public Holiday Law describes it as a day to 'love freedom and peace and promote ...

November 3rd is Meiji Day] Originally, this is the birthday of Emperor Meiji. While Emperor Meiji was alive, it was called ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is defending a controversial plan to allow distantly related males to be adopted into Japan’s imperial family by citing historical precedent: two adoptions from the Meiji ...

Donald Keene holds a copy of the English version of his work "Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912," at the Kita Ward Central Library in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2011. Keene donated books and ...

Meiji Tenno portrayed the ramp up to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also showed the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan who sent ...