You can visit the palace site as long as you obtain prior permission. The palace used to be the castle (the Edo Castle) of the Tokugawa shogunate, but it became the palace for the Imperial family in ...

The photograph was taken around 1867, just before the Meiji Restoration, which would end the feudal Tokugawa shogunate and force a westernization of Japanese society. Meanwhile, in the city of Edo ...

The crowd assembled in the parking lot of Shimoda Community Hall is a motley crew of spectators from far and near, Edo Period (1603-1868) samurai and geisha, and a small band of Star Wars ...

Meiji Restoration [Image Captured By eXputer] The Meiji Restoration marked Japan’s transition from a feudal system under the Tokugawa Shogunate to a more modernized and civilized nation. It involved: ...