Graphic courtesy of Adriana Colon This TV Fest, SCAD honored Hiroyuki Sanada from Shogun with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Sawajima Yuichi investigates matchmaking in the Edo period. Matchmaker Oume is known for her skill in finding successful matches. Discover what it was like finding a partner in old Tokyo.

Some researchers compare what is happening now in Japanese society to radical changes the nation went through at the end of the Edo Period (1603-1867) and after World War II, and call the current ...

His grandfather, Emperor Hirohito, was Japan’s longest-reigning monarch, and ruled during World War II. During Hirohito ... 1817 in the later part of the Edo Period, and the royal male line ...

After World War II, many of those structures were rebuilt, but in concrete. The towers were symbols of shogunate rule for the entire Edo Period ... of the western Japan city.