After the Meiji Restoration, the government pardoned former shogunate leaders and adopted a strategy of unity — but unity came with a cost. The Charter Oath promised modernization, industry, public ...

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During the Tokugawa era (A.D. 1603–1868), much of Japan was ruled by the country’s military governor, called the shogun, or his retainers. The rest was divided up into several hundred semiautonomous ...

He had the ability to govern the world, the merit of mending the torn sky, and bathing the clouded sun.” The exhibition opens ...

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How reading novels, beginning with Yuko Tsushima's 'Territory of Light', reshapes the writer's consciousness. I am writing a ...