A saber thought lost that was presented to a feudal samurai by Queen Victoria in 1868 as gratitude for protecting a British minister from sword-wielding assailants in Kyoto recently turned up in Tokyo.
A celebratory party in honor of the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom, coming in the year of the 140th anniversary of Korean-U.K. relations, was held on May 3.
Empire of Japan, historical Japanese empire founded on January 3, 1868, when supporters of the emperor Meiji overthrew Yoshinobu, the last Tokugawa shogun. Power would remain nominally vested in the imperial house until the defeat of Japan in World War II and the enactment of Japan’s postwar constitution on May 3, 1947.
The period that came to be known as the Meiji Restoration has as its focal point the coronation of the boy emperor Mutsuhito, who took as his reign name Meiji, or “Enlightened Rule.” With the ascent of Meiji, the throne replaced the Tokugawa bakufu, or shogunate, as the