This installment in the series focuses on turbulent Bakumatsu Japan and an incident near Kobe between British civilians and the Bizen clan of daimyo in 1868.
The former prime minister is only the fourth postwar Japanese leader to receive the country’s highest and most exclusive order of awards since the end of...
I found these treasures at the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum. The more I looked at them, the more they made me wonder how and with what they...
By Robert Morton This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration. This was the culmination, and the beginning, of a long process...
