Tokugawa Ieyasu was not a young man ... clan eliminated their Taira enemies and established the first shogunate, or military dictatorship, with Minamoto Yoritomo as its leader.

Japan was isolated from the outside world due to years of internal conflict and fear of colonization by European powers. When ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

Tokugawa Ieyasu was born in Mikawa Province (now Aichi Prefecture) in 1543. While still a young boy, the future founder of the Tokugawa shogunate ... giving him total military control over the ...

The Tokugawa ... The shogunate then launched a punitive expedition against Chōshū as an enemy of the court. The powerful domains of Satsuma and Chōshū experienced foreign military might ...

People should use the opportunity of the 400th anniversary of the establishment of Tokugawa Shogunate to consider the culture and social stability of the Edo Period, participants of a symposium in ...

For Japan, 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration; the name given to the events of 1868, which saw the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate (or bakufu) and the creation of a new ...