- 1946 Japanese constitution
- Allied Occupation
- Alternate residence duty
- Amaterasu Omikami
- Artisans
- Ashikaga family
- Ashikaga Takauji
- Bakufu
- Bansho
- Burakumin
- Castle towns
- Chinese Influence on Japan
- Chinese Tributary System
- Choshu
- Cold War
- Commodore Matthew C. Perry
- Confucianism
- Crisis of 1959-60
- Daimyo
- Diet
- Dosojin
- Edo
- Edo period
- Emperor
- Emperor Heisei
- Expel the barbarians
- Expelling the barbarians
- Feudalism
- Fudai daimyo
- Further information on the Nakasendo
- Geisha
- Hegemons
- Heian period
- Hikone
- Hokkaido
- Home Ministry
- Honjin
- Honor the emperor
- Honshu
- Human relationships
- Ise Shrine
- Ishida Mitsunari
- Ito Hirobumi
- Jesuits
- Just in time Manufacturing
- Kamakura period
- Kamakura shogunate
- Kanto Plain
- Kazunomiya
- Keio University
- Keisai Eisen
- Kinai
- Kiso Valley
- Kobe
- Kojiki
- Korea
- Kosatsuba
- Kyushu
- Lake Biwa
- Liberal-Democratic Party
- Lockheed Scandal
- Masugata
- Meiji Constitution
- Meiji Emperor
- Meiji period
- Meiji Restoration
- Merchants
- Militant Buddhist sects
- Mongols
- Muromachi shogunate
- Nagasaki
- Nagoya
- Namiki
- Nara
- Nichiren Buddhism
- Nihon Shoki
- Oda Nobunaga
- Oda Nobunaga extended information
- Okinawa
- Omi
- Osaka
- Overthrow the shogunate
- Oyakata
- Peasants
- Pilgrimage
- Policy of national seclusion
- Political Crisis of 1881
- Prefectures
- Present constitution
- Provinces
- Pure Land Buddhism
- Recruit Scandal
- Retainer
- Ronin
- Russo-Japanese War
- Sagawa Kyubin Scandal
- Samurai
- Sashimi
- Satsuma
- Scandals
- School of National Learning
- Seki
- Sekigahara
- Self Defense Forces
- Sengoku daimyo
- Shanks’ Mare
- Shikoku
- Shingon Buddhism
- Shinto
- Shogun
- Showa Emperor
- Siberian Intervention
- Soka Gakkai
- Sugawara no Michizane
- Sukego
- Sukiyaki
- Sumo
- Sushi
- Sword Hunt
- Sword Hunts
- Taiho Code
- Taika Reforms
- Taisho Emperor
- Taoism
- Tendai Buddhism
- The Dutch
- The Highway
- The Warring States period
- Tohoku
- Tojiin
- Tokaido
- Tokugawa family
- Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Tokugawa shogunate
- Tokyo Olympics
- Tonya
- Torii
- Tosa
- Toyotomi family
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Tozama daimyo
- Tsushima
- Typhoons
- Ukiyoe
- Utagawa Toyokuni
- Vendettas
- Waki-honjin
- Waseda University
- Way of the Warrior
- Yokohama
- Zen Buddhism
A journey to the heart of Japan
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A Century of Change in the Kiso Valley
In a recent campaign organized by the local town office the people of Narai and surrounding villages were asked to dig out all their old photographs. The collection that was brought together provides a most graphic account of the changes... Read more...
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17th Century Travel
One of the most vivid descriptions of travel in 17th century Japan is provided by the Dutchman, Engelbert Kaempfer. He was a doctor attached to the Dutch East India Company, based at the island of Dejima in Nagasaki. He made... Read more...
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20th Century Travel
In the early 1870s, a French military observer, Leon Descharmes, noted that with the invention of the rickshaw it was possible to travel the eighty miles from Takasaki to Tokyo in a single day on the existing roads. He went... Read more...
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Additional Reading
Textbooks: Edwin O. Reischauer, John K. Fairbank and Albert M. Craig, East Asia: Tradition and Transformation The Cambridge History of Japan (6 volumes) Peter Duus, The Rise of Modern Japan Kenneth Pyle, The Making of Modern Japan W.G. Beasley, The... Read more...
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'Village' Tokyo
It may seem odd to refer to Tokyo as a village. It has, after all, a population of about 8 million within the narrow definition of the city and some 30 million within commuting distance from the city center. Yet it is... Read more...
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