Exploring Japanese History

After Sekigahara: Reshaping JapanCULTURE | Dec 11, 2023

The Battle of Sekigahara: A Fight for the Future of JapanCULTURE | Dec 6, 2023

Ieyasu’s Ambition: The Road to SekigaharaCULTURE | Dec 1, 2023

After the Shogunate: The Last Shōgun and a New Direction for the Tokugawa ClanCULTURE | Sep 15, 2023

Interpreting the Meiji Constitution: Democracy and MilitarismINSIGHT | May 1, 2023

Drawing Up the Meiji Constitution: Popular Rights and Political WranglingINSIGHT | Apr 27, 2023

Express Train to Industrialization: Japan’s First Railway LineINSIGHT | Oct 13, 2022

Prefectures, Power, and Centralization: Japan’s Abolition of the Feudal DomainsINSIGHT | Aug 27, 2021

Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Founding of the Edo ShogunateCULTURE | Jul 7, 2020

Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Japan: Taking Control of the StateCULTURE | Apr 21, 2020

Oda Nobunaga and the Struggle to Unify JapanCULTURE | Jan 8, 2020

Japan’s Industrial RevolutionCULTURE | Jul 10, 2019

Rising in the World: The Roots of the Businessmen Who Built Japanese CapitalismCULTURE | Apr 1, 2019

The Meiji Restoration: The End of the Shogunate and the Building of a Modern Japanese StateCULTURE | Nov 29, 2018

Siebold: A German Naturalist in Nineteenth-Century NagasakiCULTURE | Feb 10, 2017