Japan ended centuries of war in the late 1500s, and the need for ninja warriors began to fade.

In the early 1920s, a small group of Japanese peasants received a land grant deep in the vast forests of the Amazon. Today their descendants have become prosperous farmers, raising tropical crops ...

Nearly 800 Japanese peasants landed in the port of Santos aboard the steamship Kasato Maru on June 18, 1908, spurring a wave of immigration that has grown to 1.5 million people - the largest ...

Tokugawa Japan: An Introductory Essay by Marcia Yonemoto, University of Colorado at Boulder Print PDF Sir George Sansom’s history of Japan was first published in 1932 and used in U.S. college ...

Much of the food introduced by the counterculture in the 1960s and '70s still influences what we eat today, food reporter and author Jonathan Kauffman says.

Nearly 800 Japanese peasants landed in the port of Santos aboard the steamship Kasato Maru on June 18, 1908, spurring a wave of immigration that has grown to 1.5 million people -- the largest ...

Imposed Blessing. For centuries the inhabitants of Ichijo, like the vast majority of Japanese peasants, have lived in tiny wood-and-wattle cottages heated only by a fire pit sunk in the earthen floor.

The cost of all the failed government-run businesses was borne on the backs of Japanese peasants. The land tax, enacted in 1873, was intended to provide the government with steadier revenues.