A compendium of lecture cruises, Pascal Alan Nazareth’s ‘Historical Perspectives’ studies the causes, consequences, and ...

A gory set of manuals, one dating to the 17th century, advised Japanese warriors in the secret ways of seppuku.

Nostalgia is a killer. The term, originally coined in the late seventeenth century, described an illness that came in ...

The Emperor Hirohito’s millennial origins were ... When the aging General and his wife learned of Meiji’s death, they purified themselves by Shinto rites. Then according to the old Shinto ...

The number of men in the Imperial family has been declining since the death of Prince Takamatsu in 1987 ... According to government documents, out of the 121 emperors prior to Emperor Meiji (reigned ...

During the Meiji period, industrialisation ... Born April 29 1901, Michinomiya Hirohito was Japan's longest-reigning emperor. His reign lasted from 1926 until his death in 1989. Sky Glass / Sky Stream ...

Historian Anne Walthall, in “The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration ... Out of respect for the emperor they should remain unscathed.

A Syrian oracle had once warned Elagabalus that he should expect a short life and violent death. Preferring the idea of killing himself to that of being assassinated, the emperor stockpiled silver ...

Well, offscreen in A New Hope, we learn that the Emperor dissolved the Senate, and replaced galactic law with “fear” of the Death Star. Was this plan all that smart? Was the consolidation of ...

Oprah Winfrey unveiled her latest book club selection Tuesday on "CBS Mornings," choosing "The Emperor of Gladness ... thing" following his uncle's death by suicide in 2012.

After several popular books of poetry and one novel, Ocean Vuong’s new book is “The Emperor of Gladness ... war traumas (her little brother’s death; his uncle’s mysterious wound ...