Sakurayama Shrine, located in the center of Morioka, remains an essential part of daily life. This shrine, along with the ...

Toranomon was the name given to the western gate to Tokyo’s ancient Edo Castle, with the tora referring ... High-level artworks, curated by Mori Art Museum director Mami Kataoka, have also ...

MATSUE -- One of the earliest known pictorial maps of Edo Castle, which was expanded by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, has been found here according to an announcement by the Matsue Municipal Government ...

A 400-year-old stone wall once part of Edo Castle, discovered only last year at what is now the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, is likely the castle’s oldest existing remnant ever unearthed ...

thirty-five-million-strong metropolis that now throbs on Edo’s ruins. Through Sept. 7. (Metropolitan Museum of Art; Feb. 1-Sept. 7.) ...

Shunichi Saito (right), president of Tokyo Port Brewery, which dates back to 1812, and his daughter, Kaede, show off the Edo Kaijo (Surrender of Edo Castle) sake brand in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on ...

TOKYO -- Stone walls from the Edo Castle thought to date back about 400 years, the oldest still existing from the structure, have been discovered at the renovation site of a museum at the Imperial ...

Located in Hiroshima Prefecture’s Fukuyama City, Fukuyama Castle has a long history stretching back nearly 400 years. For a stellar reconstruction of an Edo-period castle as well as great views of the ...