Mr. Nakamura said Meiji conducted radiation tests on March 21, which came back negative.
By the Meiji Restoration in 1868 there were 600 such sento in Tokyo alone.
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Its "classrooms" have included shopping complexes, museums and the gardens of Meiji Shrine.
Curiously, in 1968 there was nationwide rejoicing in Japan when the nation commemorated the first hundred years since Meiji.
The outcome could be as decisive as the Meiji-era reforms that in the 1860s opened the country to the world.
The play, performed in February, was about the celebrated samurai Sakamoto Ryoma, a key figure in the 1868 Meiji Restoration.
In the late 19th-century industrial revolution that bears his name, Emperor Meiji initiated perhaps Japan's greatest phase of modernization to date.
Meanwhile, Japan's recall of Meiji baby formula because of pollution by a radioactive substance has also raised a lot of concern.
He inherited more of his temperament from his grandfather, the driving, autocratic Emperor Meiji, than from his sickly, dilettante father, Emperor Taisho.
Many have taken a long, hard look at Japanese history before the Meiji modernisation in the 19th century and Asian history before westernisation.
Japan has been planning its policy of a third opening of Japan after the Meiji Restoration and the era right after the Pacific war.
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Unlike economic historians of the past, Japanese Braudelians and Wallersteinians claim that Japan's modernisation had proceeded fairly steadily before the Meiji Restoration of 1868.
Located in the trendy Harajuku district, the Meiji-jingu-gyoen Park is just steps away from where the city's most outrageously dressed teenagers compete for shock value.
The Meiji emperor then presided over the creation of modern Japan.
It was one of these citizen groups that detected a spike in radiation in the "Meiji Step" powder that prompted the company to test the product.
As they did with other issues, the Meiji modernizers studied European institutions - in which both male and female descendants are usually of equal royal status.
Meiji spokesman Masanobu Nakamura said the company received a call from a concerned customer on Nov. 28, and preliminary test results confirmed the worries about a week later.
Although Mycal's credit rating had fallen sharply, fund managers at Meiji Dresdner, believing that creditor banks would bail out the retailer, had failed to reduce their Mycal holdings.
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Although there is not yet a recall in China, major online shopping platform Taobao has blocked Meiji baby formula from its search results, reports the China Daily.
For 77 years, from the 1868 Meiji Restoration to its 1945 defeat, Japan set and pursued national goals of modernization, industrialization, and entrance into the league of major nations.
Like its Meiji precedent, the law maintained male-only succession.
Perry's visit touched off a fierce debate between traditionalists and modernizers that eventually culminated in the Meiji Restoration, in which the shogun was forcibly retired and the royal dynasty restored to power.
For starters, the Indian government never embarked on an official program to mandate Western clothes in the workplace as the Japanese Emperor Meiji did in the early 1900s, triggering a decline in traditional outfits.
Meiji, which holds a 40% share in the baby-formula market, said the affected products were manufactured between March 14 and March 20, the period when the highest concentration of radiation was released in the air.
Guangzhou's Southern Metropolis Daily says parents have been questioning why Meiji refuse to recall the same products in China, while 21st Century Business Herald suggests that the problem could actually lie on "parallel traded" stocks.
That was the famous Meiji emperor, and in his case the visiting American was Commodore Matthew Perry , who steamed into Tokyo Bay in 1853 with a powerful squadron and "suggested" that Japan abandon its feudal isolation and open relations with the outside world.
Citing comments from the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), Beijing News says the Meiji stocks on sale in China through official retail channels were imported from the firm's Australian factories, while China's ban on baby milk made in Japan is still in place.
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