A massacre of dozens of shipwrecked Ryukyu islanders in Taiwan over a century ago was the trigger for a power play that ...

In the Meiji period, Japanese leaders looked to European models of constitutional monarchy, adopting a system of imperial government modeled most closely on the Prussian model. As Japan transitioned ...

Organized and carried out by disgruntled members of the former Tokugawa Era samurai class, the coup symbolically reinstated the power of the emperor while writing the revolutionaries behind it into ...

Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan, President and Representative Director: Daikichiro Kobayashi; hereinafter referred to as "Meiji Seika Pharma") today announced its investment ...

Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western principles into Japanese society, including adopting a cabinet system into government. After the emperor's death in ...

Japan has 47 prefectures, administrative divisions ranking immediately below the national government. They were created following the Meiji restoration of 1868, often with borders matching the ...

Japanese food major Meiji Co. is to spend $28m building capacity for its Hello Panda snack brand in the US. It will be invested in its subsidiary Meiji America’s plant in Santa Ana, California.