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The same patch of central Kyoto where Emperor Kanmu laid out his new capital in 794 is where, in 1947, […]

Between the rifle smoke clearing at Sekigahara in October 1600 and the rifle smoke rising at Toba-Fushimi in January 1868,

On the last trading day of 1989, the Nikkei 225 closed at 38,915.87. That number then fell, kept falling, and

On the morning of 27 May 1467, in the streets north-east of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, two warlords called

On the night of 14 August 1945, palace technicians in Tokyo recorded a four-and-a-half-minute speech onto two small phonograph discs.

In the spring of 1591, with cherry trees flowering in the inner garden of his Kyoto palace at Jurakudai, Toyotomi

On 6 April 1868, a fifteen-year-old emperor stood at the Kyoto Imperial Palace and signed a document of five sentences

At 11 hours, 58 minutes, 32 seconds on the morning of 1 September 1923, the seabed off Sagami Bay shrugged

On the night of 15 August 1281, a typhoon hit the western coast of Kyushu and tore apart roughly 4,000

On 27 May 1467 a small private war broke out in Kyoto over which boy would inherit the title of