The Edo Period (1603-1867) was in its final decade when American physician and Christian missionary James Curtis Hepburn (1815-1911)--better known in Japan by his chosen Japanized surname of ...

For the first time, an official map from the late Edo Period (1603-1867) was found that shows the now-disputed Takeshima islets as Japanese territory, a Japanese think tank said. The navigational ...