Before Tokyo matured into the gleaming, dense city it is today, it was a small fishing village called Edo. Now home to over 13 million people, the Japanese capital has changed dramatically since ...

How did Edo start out and what did it look like? Until the early 16th century, it was little more than a fishing village in marshland at the mouth of the River Sumida 隅田川. There had been a castle on a ...

He took us on a stroll through the tranquil fishing village, stopping to show us the ... prohibiting the religion issued in 1614 by the Edo government. Tensions erupted in the Shimabara Rebellion ...