Planning a trip to Japan? Here are some articles you ... the castle’s original military purposes. During the Meiji era (1868-1912) the castle came under threat. In 1872, as it was being ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO -- Spectacular candy castle kits priced at about $1,800 each were released by Japanese sweets giant Meiji Co. on Jan. 16 and had sold out by the end of the day. The name of the product ...

Only the Meiji would know. Firm in this conviction a spruce file of puzzled Japanese Army officers rode out from Tokyo one dawn last week to a pungent park of pine and camphor trees. They crossed ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...