EMPEROR OF JAPAN: Meiji and His World 1852-1912 ... a singularly colorless individual. Shortly after his death, men who had known him were asked for their recollections of the former ruler ...

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 ...

The Meiji Shrine was established in 1920 in honor of Emperor Meiji, Japan’s 112nd emperor who ascended to the throne in 1867, and his wife Empress Shoken. The alleged incident occurred just ...

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.

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 ...