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Scale model of the Honmaru and Ninomaru Palaces of Edo Castle, as they would have appeared during the late Tokugawa Shogunate. (Edo-Tokyo Museum, Japan)

First anniversary of Hachikō's death, photograph included in Showa Day by Day (Volume 4), p. 53, by Kondansha Co., 8 March 1936. Hachikō was an Akita dog belonging to Hidesaburō Ueno, an agricultural scientist, who...

An 1890 oil on canvas, Hyde Park, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. (Tokyo Fuji Art Museum)

An 1885 oil on canvas, Women Bathing, Dieppe, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Although the artist was influenced by the impressionists and experimented with that technique, this...

A house in Oku, Tokyo, destroyed by a US B-25 Mitchell bomber of the Doolittle Raid, which attacked Japan on 18 April 1942 during the Second World War (1939-45).

The decision to drop the atomic bomb in August 1945 was taken to avoid further Allied casualties in the Pacific War by forcing Japan into an immediate surrender. Another reason was, as the victors jostled...

The Battle of Guam, in the Mariana Islands, took place in July and August 1944 during the Pacific War of the Second World War (1939-45). Guam had been US territory prior to the conflict but was...

The Battle of Saipan took place in June-July 1944. US forces engaged in a titanic three-week struggle with Japanese defenders to finally take the island, part of the Mariana Islands, during the Pacific War of WWII (1939-45). The...

This is a picture of the high altar at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo, Japan, which is protected by a screen. In 645 CE, the renowned Buddhist priest Shokai visited Tokyo and built a hall for the worship of the Bodhisattva...

The Edo period refers to the years from 1603 until 1868 when the Tokugawa family ruled Japan. The era is named after the city of Edo, modern-day Tokyo, where the Tokugawa shogunate had its government. It is also sometimes referred...