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 ...

Asia Society presents a fresh look at the art of Japan’s Meiji era (1868-1912), a period of unprecedented cultural and technological transition, in the landmark exhibition Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of ...

During the Meiji period, the capital was moved from Kyoto, the ancient capital, to Tokyo, formerly called Edo. During the last decades of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, Japan ...

reveals that Western modernization and the demand for exports influenced Japanese ceramics during the transitional period of the late Edo period to the Meiji period.

Architecture shapes space to enhance life: few architects have embodied this vision with as much genius as Frank Lloyd Wright ...

However, knockoffs sporting the Meiji and Kinoko no Yama branding quickly surfaced on e-commerce platforms, both in Japan and overseas. Meiji pointed out that these counterfeits not only lacked ...

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that ...

The Japanese arm of an advisory body to UNESCO has called on the Tokyo metropolitan government to review a redevelopment project for the scenic Meiji Jingu Gaien district on grounds it could ...

Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co., one of Japan’s biggest life insurance companies, plans to raise its retirement age from the current 65 to 70 so it does not suffer a shortfall of experienced staff.

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Kyoto, Japan in the spring. Experts say the best time to visit Japan is during the cherry blossom season from late March to mid-May. In Japan, fall foliage stretches late into the year ...

Night - Scattered showers with a 85% chance of precipitation. Winds from NE to ENE at 4 to 6 mph (6.4 to 9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 47 °F (8.3 °C). Rain with a high of 56 °F (13.3 °C ...