W hile traveling through Japan in May, I stumbled upon the annual Himeji Castle Festival. One of the city’s significant ...

Britain's Princess Beatrice is a married woman. She tied the knot with beau, real estate developer, Edo Mapelli Mozzi, in a private ceremony at Windsor Castle on Friday morning. Unlike her sister ...

Ieyasu’s Birthplace. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the future founder of the Edo shogunate, was born in 1543 in Okazaki Castle in Mikawa Province (now Aichi Prefecture).The Saigō clan is thought to have ...

Edo Castle, bearing the former name of Tokyo, has one of the longest lineages of all Japan’s castles. A fortified palace was first erected on the site during the Heian period (794-1185).

The tower doesn't quite scrape the skyline like the 59-meter-high main keep of Edo Castle once did, but the miniature version of it now at Tokyo's Imperial Palace is still nothing to sneeze at.

Located inside the walls of Edo Castle, it contained the living quarters of women serving Tokugawa rulers and played a vital role in ensuring stability during the Edo period (1603–1868) through ...

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 ...

Edo Tōkyō Hakubutsukan Moto Rikyū Nijōjō Jimusho Hakuhōdō DY Media Pātonāzu Yomiuri Shinbunsha Subject Nijōjō (Kyoto, Japan) History Notes Catalog of an exhibition held at Edo Tōkyō Hakubutsukan, July ...

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 ...

An entrance to Edo Castle during the 250-odd years that Edo (present-day Tokyo) ... Yuta Shimizu, 12, waves at me from inside a giant soap bubble, while his friend Lisa Mori, 11, ...

On a cloudy day of sporadic downpours, we found shelter inside one of Japan’s foremost national treasures, Nagoya Castle, in Nagoya, Japan. Established by Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the 2 ½ ...

Sending one of their number to Ako Castle to deliver the news of the revenge, the remaining 46, carrying Kira’s head, marched 10 kilometers through Edo to Sengakuji, to lay in front of Asano’s grave ...