From the 1870s through the 1920s, Japan underwent rapid and widespread modernization and nation-building. In the Meiji period, Japanese leaders looked to European models of constitutional monarchy, ...

Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward has reproduced a rare map from 1947 that shows how the postwar U.S. occupation of Japan had dominated and sprawled across the places locals walk past every day. It proved to ...

Which parts of the East Coast and California might Germany and Japan have claimed? By the late 1930s, the question was no ...

The Total War series is not just a strategy game, it is a hybrid beast with two heads. One is strategic, turn-based: on a ...