Unifying the people through a strong sense of identity, national interest, and pride was a goal of the Meiji government in the late 1800s and continued into the 20th century. The emperor was one ...

Japan’s first school lunch is said to have been served in 1889 at a school at the temple Daitokuji in what is now Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, which was established by priests for children who ...

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 ...

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese ...

Stacks of video and audio equipment — some decades old, others nearly extinct — fill an entire wall of Tokyo Koon’s office, a quiet space tucked away in the northern corner of Shibuya Ward.

a U.S. publication better known in Japan as Sukiya Living Magazine, which ranked the gardens as the nation’s most splendid for the 20th consecutive year in 2022. Introduced in 2003, the ...