The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...

NARA--Artifacts recovered from an Ottoman Empire frigate that sank off Japan’s Kii Peninsula in the Meiji Era (1868-1912) were at risk of disintegrating until researchers hit upon the idea of ...

The events leading up to this new empire, however, were dark, filled with rains of terror, torrents of pain, and showers of blood. This was the start of the Meiji Restoration. Amidst the chaos ...