The Supreme Court has finalized a lower court ruling ordering a publisher to delete its lists of areas where people discriminated against as descendants of the country's feudal outcasts live or ...

During nearly seven centuries, Japan changed dramatically from feudalism, social change, conflicts, and outside forces seeking trade or contact. The word bakufu means “tent government” and is ...

immediately after the first modern government of the Meiji Era (1868-1912) was established to bring an end to the feudal age. Harry Parkes, a British minister to Japan, was on his way to the Kyoto ...