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 ...

An American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a pillar of a gate to a shrine in Tokyo. Steve Lee Hayes, 65, was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of property ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...