Japan’s Taisho era promised greater democracy, but militarism soon began to take hold. In Part 2 of this series, we explore the factors that led to the decline of civilian government and the rise of ...

NAKADOMARI, Aomori Prefecture--Research into a historic estate here is revealing the extent of influence of the artistic and cultural styles during the Taisho Era (1912-1926). A trove of valuable ...

According to Rei Hasegawa, an assistant professor of modern Japanese history with Kogakkan ... records of imperial family members from the Taisho Era,” Hasegawa said. He noted that citizens ...

The samurai warrior has come to symbolize Japan’s medieval period of social and political unrest that lasted from the late twelfth to late sixteenth centuries. Working with artistic renderings of the ...