The three-story, red-brick property was built in the Meiji Era (1868-1912 ... The refurbishment work requires that the Western-style building’s external appearance, along with the cobblestones ...

Leading cartoonists in Japan joined forces to renovate a Meiji-Era (1868-1912) Western-style house in Tokyo into a manga-themed attraction. The building, called the Former Residence of Theodora ...

About 3,500 people gathered at Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo on Friday to see sumo yokozuna grand champion Hoshoryu perform his first ring-entering ceremony. He was promoted to the sport's highest rank ...

Tim Anderson’s new book, Hokkaido, is inspired by Japan’s northernmost prefecture, where Western influences and Indigenous cooking create a cuisine like no other.

In their private lives, Japanese in the Meiji era still wore Japanese clothing and preferred Japanese-style living space. Ask students to review their predictions from the first day as to how changes ...

ODAWARA, Kanagawa -- A Western style building constructed near Sagami Bay in this east Japan city in 1937 was a vacation home of a Meiji period (1868-1912) minister, and now serves as a literature ...