Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western principles into Japanese society, including adopting a cabinet system into government. After the emperor's death in ...

At the center of the Meiji Restoration was Emperor Meiji (born Mutsuhito, 1852–1912), the first monarch of the Empire of Japan who ruled from 1867 until his death in 1912. As was custom during the ...

The July 31, 1912, edition of The Osaka Mainichi reports Emperor Meiji's death on July 30, 1912, with an English article in the lower left corner. The English edition of the Mainichi was founded ...

In 1912, the Emperor Meiji died after 45 years on the throne. He'd presided over a period of amazing change. But the Meiji story doesn't really end with the death of the Emperor Meiji himself.

Initially, there were no specific plans to compile them in book form, but Meiji Shrine decided to release the collections as early as 2022, the 110th anniversary of the emperor’s death.