The year 2026 marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of Meiji era poet Takuboku Ishikawa (1886-1912). To coincide with the ...

The West was trending in Japan 150 years ago. That might seem like a silly way to put it, but it’s also true. After two centuries of isolationist policy, Japan was forcibly opened up to foreign ...

While Meiji struggled in Japan to sell its crunchy, chocolate-filled biscuit snacks first introduced in 1987, Hello Panda had ...

The ornate Yomei-mon Gate at Nikkō Tōshō-gū, a Shinto shrine in Japan’s Tochigi Prefecture, has one pillar that stands upside down. The orientation is deliberate: builders in 1617 did not want to ...

Asia Society is proud to present Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan. This exhibition reevaluates a seminal era of turmoil, creativity, and transformation in Japan spanning the mid-nineteenth to ...

Approaching Japan's artistically diverse and politically entangled history of art is a formidable task, not least because English-language art history publications on the multifaceted subject are few ...

Jan. 7 (UPI) --A formal ceremony heralded the start of the Japan's sumo wrestling season at the Meiji Jingu shrine on Tuesday, two months after a U.S. man was arrested for desecrating it. Japanese ...