Japanese imperial family / Wikimedia Commons The collapse of aristocratic rule ushered in a new age of...
Japan
Explore Japan from ancient court society and warrior government through Tokugawa rule, imperial expansion, wartime destruction, postwar reconstruction, and contemporary culture. These histories follow the people and institutions that shaped the archipelago’s changing place in the world.
The Shinto shrine of Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha, Mount Fuji. The site’s most important shrine, it was...
The Japanese Tea Ceremony / Photo by mrhayata, Creative Commons Tea was first drunk by Chinese monks...
Floats for the Kanda Festival, 1843 / Photo by Daderot, Edo-Tokyo Museum, Wikimedia Commons Looking at Japan’s...
Genking, a male-born Japanese TV personality and ‘genderless’ pioneer. _genking_/Instagram By Dr. Jennifer Robertson / 02.28.2017 Professor...
Japanese soldiers of the Sino-Japanese War. Wikimedia Commons As Japanese imperialism rose and fell, its leaders interpreted and re-interpreted a single distinctive concept: “bushido”....
Birds and Flowers of Spring and Summer, by Kano Eino / Suntory Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons...
Roman coins were discovered in Katsuren castle in Uruma, Okinawa, southwestern Japan. EPA/Uruma City Education Board Is this...
Old painting of Himeji castle / Wikimedia Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.07.2018 Historian Brewminate...
Tokyoites watch Hideo Nomo pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers at Sony Plaza on June 30, 1995. Shizuo...
ひろしま/hiroshima #9 (Ogawa Ritsu), 2007, Ishiuchi Miyako. Chromogenic print. © Ishiuchi Miyako 70 years after the bombing...
Portrait of two Ainu men from Sakhalin, photo by Bronislaw Pilsudski / National Museum of Natural History,...
The Fukushima disaster exposed fissures in Japanese society that its familial politics tries to paper over. ...
Tokyo Christmas Illuminations, Mikimoto Jumbo Christmas Tree By Muza-chan / 12.19.2011 Muza-chan’s Gate to Japan Since the...
By Tanja Taljaard / 12.02.2016 How Can Nature Nurture You? A dose of nature can cure many...
11.15.2016 Chinsekikan, or The Hall of Curious Rocks is a unique museum in the Japanese town Saitama,...