Allan West entered the room backgrounded by a calming painting of a flowering plum tree draped in snow. He was wearing his ...

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was born in Japan on the brink of a national transformation. The Edo Period, characterized by the military ... But 200 years on, the government’s staunch policies, ...

It was part of a tightly controlled ritual, likely reserved for a select few, reinforcing the social hierarchy,” University of Florida anthropological archeologist and study co-author Daniel ...

Japan’s rice crisis calls for a critical reassessment of agricultural policies that have weakened its food security in an increasingly unpredictable global landscape ...

As evidence that at least some Japanese were still taking this Edo-era balderdash seriously as late as 1966 ... Then in 1967 the number of births rebounded to 1.94 million. As Japan's birthrate has ...

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the history of Japan ... video on the Edo Japan’s social order and the bakuhan system, as we deduce what the feudal structure of ...

A survey in Japan found that the most frequently used social media platforms were Line and YouTube, which were both considerably ahead of X and Instagram. People of all ages are glued to their ...

A man arrested for allegedly killing a high school girl in Saitama Prefecture has admitted to the crime, police sources said Wednesday. The suspect, Hiroyuki Taniuchi, 25, was quoted as saying ...

From the Edo period to modern-day Japan, the postwar era to the seventies ... In the second, two girls from different social classes attend high school together in the Meiji era and communicate ...