The neglected wife - Lady Tsukiyama In 1578 a scandal ripped through the princedom of Mikawa, domain of Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ieyasu ...

Until 1954 most immigrants arriving in the United States went through the immigration inspection station on Ellis Island in Upper New York ...

In October 1866 a young man called Algernon Mitford arrived in Japan. ‘I found myself in a world younger by six centuries than that which I...

The dimensions of the Seraglio and the extent to which it exerted a malign influence upon the conduct of public affairs may be measured by ...

Until the late nineteenth century, there was no word for ‘love’ in Japanese, no equivalent to the western concept of pure, ennobling, plato...

To win one of five copies of Lesley Downer's The Shogun's Queen, just answer the question in the Comments below: "As a woman,...

Our November Guest is Lesley Downer, who will become a regular History Girl next year. Photo credit: Jill Shaw Lesley Downer lived in ...