What kind of relationship did Japanese people and animals have during the early modern Edo period (1603–1868)? An exhibition ...

The book provides new insights into Dutch studies, vernacular translation, and the importance of Chinese texts and translations, as well a new perspective on early modern Japanese cultural production ...

and Erich Pauer’s overview of Japanese technical books in the pre-modern era, to Suzuki Jun’s detailed account of boiler-making in late nineteenth-century Japan. To save content items to your account, ...

The Rise of the Samurai: Historical Context The Samurai class, the military nobility of medieval and early-modern Japan, rose to prominence during the Heian period (794–1185). This era saw the ...

How the Japanese population acquired these ancestries and what was the pattern of early immigrations that ... s genome with those of ancient and modern populations in east and northeast Asia.

By the early 17th century, Japan was at peace again ... That tradition is still alive: the samurai in modern Japan -- the bureaucrats, the white-collar employees in the big companies have no sense of ...

Yuichiro Tamaki, the leader of a small opposition party now able to wield outsized political influence, had long puzzled over ...

The author discusses his latest novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” and his growth as a writer.

From swanky low-slung coupes to ultra-rare sedans, these JDM cars stand for fastidious Japanese craftsmanship that can rival ...

Over the past century, heart operations that once were unthinkable have become commonplace. Thousands of times a day, ...

Japan's Yuma Kagiyama won the NHK Trophy title on Saturday, putting an early fall behind him to take gold in his first Grand Prix appearance of the figure skating season. Kagiyama finished on 300.09 ...

More than 80 per cent of the genomes of modern Japanese people consist of ancestries ... these ancestries and what was the ...