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 samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

Who was Shohe Tanaka Tanaka Shohe was a Japanese scientist, music theorist, and inventor who lived from May 15, 1862, until ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Order of the Rising Sun was founded in 1875 by Emperor Meiji and is bestowed to foreigners for significant contributions to Japan. Dzau has actively contributed to the G20 Health Task Force during ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...