You can visit the palace site as long as you obtain prior permission. The palace used to be the castle (the Edo Castle) of the Tokugawa shogunate, but it became the palace for the Imperial family in ...

The upcoming visit of Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus to Japan later this month carries great symbolic and strategic ...

In other words, she is rather a compiler than a historian. Her work is divided into three parts: 1, Norman Feudalism (1066-1154); 2, The Lawyers' Feudalism (1154-1250); 3, Decadent Feudalism (1250 ...

But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of life. The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for ...

The crowd assembled in the parking lot of Shimoda Community Hall is a motley crew of spectators from far and near, Edo Period (1603-1868) samurai and geisha, and a small band of Star Wars ...

Things were quite different in 16th-century Japan, where the Tokugawa shogunate put a stop to what had, until then, been a rather successful if slow process of evangelizing previously ...

Members of the community of kakure kirishitan, Christians who "hid" for centuries, they held on to the faith during the brutal persecution under the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan's last feudal regime ...

After the Tokugawa Shogunate was overthrown in 1868 and imperial rule returned to Japan, Emperor Meiji recruited people from the Western world to rapidly familiarize his country with the ...

Nintendo has released a new Nintendo Switch system update worldwide, with the portable home console’s current firmware version now 20.0.0. This major update has introduced Virtual Game Card and ...