The enthronement ceremony for Emperor Taishō set a precedent for all subsequent imperial accessions. Until then, emperors ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne in a private ceremony at the Imperial Palace ...

Now that a century has passed since the start of World War I, what links that era with the Japan of today? Human rights and democracy have become the basis for Japan’s contemporary political system, ...

From the 1870s through the 1920s, Japan underwent rapid and widespread modernization and nation-building. In the Meiji period, Japanese leaders looked to European models of constitutional monarchy, ...