Witness to the Beginning and End of the Edo Shogunate — Walking Through the History Carved by Ieyasu, Hideyori, Emperor ...

MATSUE -- One of the earliest known pictorial maps of Edo Castle, which was expanded by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, has been found here according to an announcement by the Matsue Municipal Government in ...

When I was compiling a list of castle keeps, the "small keep" of Hirosaki Castle really caught my attention.The keep that ...

What’s done is done. But what if a historic negotiation over the surrender of Edo Castle between Saigo Takamori, who led the Imperial forces during the fall of Edo, and Katsu Kaishu, the shogunate’s ...

TOKYO -- Stone walls from the Edo Castle thought to date back about 400 years, the oldest still existing from the structure, have been discovered at the renovation site of a museum at the Imperial ...

Naotake Odake, former managing director of the Japan Tourist Bureau (JTB) and once director of the Tokyo Convention and Visitors Bureau, spent years of his professional life traveling to cities across ...

Tokyo is built on the site of the old city of Edo. There are few traces of the old city, but the street pattern of Tokyo is much the same, so the old city lives on in the new as a kind of ghostly ...

The Zen temple Zenshōan in the Yanaka district of Tokyo has long been a place of reflection for the political elite, including several prime ministers. The second installment of this two-part series ...