Japan has introduced new rules restricting how names are spelled and pronounced. The new regulations, announced last week, ...

Government bans unconventional kanji pronunciations to dissuade parents from giving children quirky and individualistic names ...

Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western principles into Japanese society, including adopting a cabinet system into government. After the emperor's death in ...

The Meiji Era (1868–1912) saw rapid modernization efforts in every aspect of Japanese life, with the Meiji government heavily investing in ... It is the largest comprehensive trading company in Japan, ...

With the collapse of the shogunate in 1868, the new Meiji government actively encouraged travel in pursuit of technologies to transform and modernize Japan. Perhaps the greatest shift in Japan’s ...

a “mocktail party” of women followed by a discussion of how women’s roles can inform students of the larger complexity of modern Japan. In 1888, the Japanese government under the Meiji emperor adopted ...

What ensued was an era of modernization in architecture, fashion, industry, government and art like no other, gloriously evidenced in “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan,” a building-wide ...

The Meiji government said “Japanese” people had to be protected, even though at that time the Ryukyu kingdom was still not considered a part of Japan. Japanese troops took revenge by ...

UKIHA, Fukuoka -- The former residence of a wealthy family here is a showcase of elaborate design, speaking to the present from its presumed completion time in the late Meiji era (1868-1912).

Approaching Japan’s artistically ... Museum of Art) The Meiji Restoration marked the overthrow of the country’s 700-year-old shogunate military dictatorship. The new government extended ...