Period of Sengoku in Japan (1467-1573)

Historian consider period of Sengoku to have begun as early as 1467, with the beginning of the Onin War. In 1467, a decade-long......

Vintage Japan

Japanese (9th Reg. 4th Div.) ready for battle - awaiting orders for the advance - siege of Port Arthur, 1905  ......

No Amelia Earhart was not a prisoner of the Japanese

The MagicsThis is one of those moments that makes me, as an amateur historian cry inside, because stories like this grow......

Vintage Japan

Japanese music - mendicant friars play, 1935   The most distinguished family in the fishing village  Theatre......

Vintage Japan

Geisha girls out for an airing in rickshaws - along the Old Avenue, Nara, Japan, ca. 1906   Japanese mothers......

Japan

These are from the Library of Congress Stereograph Collection.Geisha girls out for an airing in rickshaws - along......

Last Japanese Soldier to Surrender in World War II

One of my favorite stories from history is that of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese intelligence officer in World War II who was......

Ganjin - Buddhist Monk

Ganjin traveled to Japan to spread the Buddhist faith. He was born in the Chinese county of Jiangyin in Guangling (Yangzhou,......

Shintoism

ShintoismBelieved to be an indigenous religion of Japan, Shintoism (or Shinto) involved the worshipping of kami and prescribed......

Soga Clan

The Soga became the most powerful ruling clan in the early Japanese Yamato state between the seventh and eighth centuries......

Suiko

Suiko ruled Japan from 592 to 628 c.e. alongside her regent, the crown prince Shotoku Taishi. She was the daughter of Emperor......

Yamato Clan and State

Map of Yamato stateThe Yamato court is known as the birthplace of the Japanese political state. It is a term applied to......