Japan's Princess Mako said goodbye to her imperial home and royal title after announcing Tuesday she'd wed Kei Komuro, a lawyer she met while both were in university and whom she described as ...

The Imperial Household Agency on Tuesday announced the details of the coming-of-age ceremony for Prince Hisahito, son of ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan 's Imperial palace said Thursday that it has fired an employee for stealing cash totaling 3.6 million yen ($24,900) from Emperor Naruhito and his family over more than a year.

Japan got a new highly eligible bachelor on Friday as Prince Hisahito, the imperial family's last hope for long-term survival unless the rules are changed to allow female succession, turned 18.

Japan 's royal family, the oldest continuous hereditary monarchy, is facing a succession crisis - because women still aren't allowed to take to the throne. Emperor Naruhito, 64, has just one ...

Japan's empress emerita leaves hospital Empress Emerita Michiko returns to the Sento Imperial Residence in Tokyo on Sunday after undergoing surgery last week. | Jiji Jiji SHARE/SAVE Oct 14, 2024 ...

Phaidon, $79.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-83729-014-7 This serene and stately volume presents the famously private Japanese imperial residence as a place of beguilement.

The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one thinks of Imperial Japan’s World War II fighter planes, the ...

Japanese Empress Masako has expressed her yearning for peace as a mother’s love in her poem, read at an annual celebration of poetry at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo Yuri Kageyama ...

Japan's Imperial Household website has received a new update READ MORE: Japanese royals in mourning: Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko lead attendees at funeral of Princess Yuriko, who ...