At the beginning of the 20th century, large-scale industrialization in Japan begun during the Meiji Restoration, a period of rapid modernization that lasted from 1868-1912, was well under way. The ...

Nestled in the aviation-rich city of Kakamigahara, the Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum-known locally as ...

Becoming Modern: Early 20th-Century Japan through Primary Sources offers secondary teachers seven lessons that examine a critical period in Japanese and world history: the period of Japan’s ...

North Korean workers in Far East Russia’s Sakhalin region have discovered remnants of an early 20th-century Japanese temple, local mediareported Tuesday. A stone slab with engraved Japanese ...

Exhibition: Witnessing War: Ogawa Kazumasa and Visual Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Japan . Dates: August 1, 2024 - December 15, 2024. Location: Markell Gallery. This exhibition explores the ...

By Damian Flanagan There is a curious historical footnote that tends to be forgotten about the Japanese imperial expansion of the late 19th and early ...

Inspirations from Japanese aesthetics and Zen philosophy ... was a unique ambassador of Far Eastern aesthetics in the early 20th century. Obsessed with collecting, he infected and inspired his artist ...

Japan's rainy season ended at the earliest date on record in the country's western regions, meteorologists said Friday, as ...

Opening Oct. 26, the National Museum of Asian Art will unveil “Japanese Art from the Collection,” a reinstallation of its permanent collection of objects from Japan with over 60 works ranging from ...

Japan and South Korea marked the 60th anniversary of the normalization of their diplomatic relations on Sunday. The two Asian ...

Newly released photographs from the New York Public Library show daily life in Korea during the early Japanese colonial period (1910-1945). Skip to main content It seems the web browser you ... a ...

In the early 20th century, Japan’s imperial efforts continued unabated as it took more and more territory from China, but by the mid-1930s relations between Japan and the United States had ...