and subsequently following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when power was restored to the emperor, over a hundred remain throughout the country today. Here are some of Japan’s best castles that ...

Inuyama is quite famous for its castle, which has the oldest castle tower in Japan. However, Inuyama City has another attraction that is even more special: Hakubutsukan Meiji Mura, or as it is more ...

After its main tower was demolished in the Meiji Era, the castle languished ... at the World Heritage Himeji Castle. Tetsuo Owada, chairman of the Japan Castle Foundation, said walking directly ...

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.

AWARA, Fukui -- Of the places across Japan that resemble the world of Hayao Miyazaki's animated film "Laputa: Castle in the Sky ... during Japan's Meiji era (1868-1912). The type of stone ...

The new scholarly yet accessible book The Splendour of Modernity: Japanese Arts of the Meiji Era sets the record straight with remarkable clarity. Author and curator Rosina Buckland’s book joins ...

Take Saigo Takamori, whose 1877 rebellion against the newly-founded Meiji government ended in ... the design and construction of over 30 castles across Japan, influencing tactics and architecture ...