Japan officially began a new era on 1 May when Crown Prince Naruhito ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne as the new emperor. The day before, his father Emperor Akihito became the first Japanese ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, in a poem recited at the annual New Year's Poetry Reading on Wednesday, expressed how he was ...

When the Emperor of Japan lands in Britain on Saturday night, for the first state visit since the King was diagnosed with ...

June 25 (UPI) --The emperor and empress of Japan were in Britain Tuesday for a long-awaited state visit that was originally dated to take place four years ago. Emperor Naruhito of Japan and his ...

Emperor Akihito will abdicate on April 30th. It is the first time in more than 200 years that a living Japanese Emperor will hand over the throne. And it brings to a close an era that redefined ...

passing on the tragic memories to the next generation and highlighting the pursuit of peace by Japan's first emperor born after the war, the source said. The imperial couple plan to visit the ...

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Japan's Emperor Naruhito said he is praying for the happiness of people in Japan and the world in his first New Year's greetings in two years. The Emperor and other members of the Imperial family ...

The visits under consideration by the Imperial Household Agency are aimed at remembering the war dead, passing on the tragic memories to the next generation and highlighting the pursuit of peace by ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako plan to face up to Japan’s wartime history on their ... occupation of Indonesia would be a focus of his first overseas goodwill trip since he ascended the ...