Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan’s brutal power struggles

A recent study concludes Japan has extremely low confidence in vaccines. We examine the history of vaccination in Japan over the past 150 years to assess this study’s claim of vaccine hesitancy. We fi...

A new exhibit at MIT, “From Samurai into Engineers,” explores the Institute’s first Japanese students, who arrived as MIT was taking flight and their own country was opening up.

The series “Shogun” has been a shocking success. The show, already popular with audiences, has now won a record-breaking number of Emmy’s. It’s also unique as the main characters speak in Japanese the...

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The series “Shogun” has been a shocking success. The show, already popular with audiences, has now won a record-breaking number of Emmy’s. It’s also unique as the main characters speak in Japanese the...

Discover the 50 most significant events of the Middle Ages, spanning the years 500 to 1500.

This online talk will explore how people in Japan used ceramics during the Edo period, when the Tokugawa shogunate ruled the archipelago and the samurai held...

In the wake of the latest television remake of James Clavell's celebrated novel Shōgun, a panel of distinguished historians of early modern Japan and England...

The FX and Hulu hit depicts a bloody, brutal, mostly thwarted colonial history of Japan. It’s based in the truth.

AbstractThis chapter discusses the Korean origins of the Ōuchi as specialists in mining and explains how they emigrated to Japan and settled in the west. It sho

Global anti-Asian racism, particularly in the guise of Yellow Peril, has endured for centuries around the world. In Europe and the Americas, Asian immigrants...

MJHA proudly presents a "New Books on Japan" event:Book: _Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan_ (Cambridge Universit...

By Tina Chen, Jennifer Ho, and Christine Yano Forthcoming from the AAS Publications Asia Shorts series, Global Anti-Asian Racism is edited by Jennifer Ho, past president of the Association for Asian A...

At a time when so many of TV's biggest swings have missed, this epic miniseries stands apart as a masterpiece.

The M.A. in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies is a two-year, interdisciplinary humanities degree that prepares students to engage with the social, environmental, and political challenges facing countri...

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In commemorating the institution’s anniversary, this issue of Ars Orientalis honors the past by presenting new art historical perspectives on the museum’s holdings of Asian art, while also forging...