The Japanese economy emerged from the ashes of World War II as one of the first ... Compared to France, India, Italy, and Brazil, it would be the sixth wealthiest nation on Earth. Feudal Japan placed ...

Japanese history reveals that Hi-Nin ( ()) were an outcast group during the Edo Period. It is directly translated to "non-human" as "Hinin". In Hinin, people were forced to engage in activities that ...

Medieval Japan may call to mind honorable sword-wielding samurai and stealthy ninja assassins ... and India to seeing one extending far beyond Asia. Third, interest in that world led Japanese ...

Japan’s Bakufu, or military government ... With peace came prosperity under the new Bakufu rule. Japanese merchants traded ...

A wooden notice resembling a kosatsu (signboard that announced official edicts in feudal Japan) was recently erected outside of the city hall in Matsue, capital of Shimane Prefecture. The notice — ...