Ironically, the imperial system was as much a construction of the Meiji oligarchs as was Japan’s new modern military and its industrial economy. Intellectuals like Fukuzawa were doing as much to ...

Princess Yuriko became the sister-in-law of Japan's World War II-era Emperor Hirohito when she married his brother Prince ...

This major new volume presents innovative recent scholarship on Japan's modern history, including its imperial past and transregional entanglements. An international team of leading scholars offer ...

there are still many who remain ambivalent about whether a modern Japan still needs the Imperial Family. There are also small but vocal activist groups calling for an end the monarchy, who rally ...

Daniel Botsman, Yale University 'In seven compelling essays, the author narrates Japan’s modern history through its gendered and sexualized figures: imperial soldiers and salarymen, good wives and ...

In 1926, when Japanese Emperor Hirohito ascended the Imperial throne ... vowed to bring the country's royal family into the modern age when he took over five years ago. And on Monday, the royal ...

Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has ...