The Tokugawa clan, which produced successive shogun rulers throughout the Edo Period (1603-1867), will hold a ceremony Jan. 29 to formally anoint its first new head in more than half a century.

Sir George Sansom’s history of Japan was first published in 1932 and used in U.S. college classrooms into the 1980s. In it, he described the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) as an era of oppressive “feudal ...

Let's take a tour of Edo, Japan's capital (now Tokyo) during the Tokugawa Period. Which countries do the most people want to relocate to? Julian Alvarez scores stunning solo goal for Atletico ...

Having evolved over many centuries, these warrior values began to become more standardized as a code during the Tokugawa Shogunate, an era of samurai rule in Japan that began at the turn of the ...

More recent scholarship identifies the Tokugawa period, 1603-1868, as a time when Japan experienced significant social, economic, and political changes that laid the groundwork for modernization. In ...

Blessed Maria Tanaka, also known as Mary Tanaka, was a Japanese Christian martyr who lived during the early 17th century.

In the Edo Period (1603-1867), the average height for ... One notable example was Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837-1913), the 15th and last shogun. One of his favorite foods was a pork dish, earning ...