Hirohito ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne in 1926, after five years as regent to his mentally debilitated father Emperor Yoshihito ... The Big Bullock of the present government, the emperor, is not ...

Also standing on the balcony was Emperor Emeritus Akihito, who abdicated in favor of his son in 2019 ... in the name of Naruhito’s grandfather Hirohito. Over the decades since Japan’s defeat ...

Also standing on the balcony was Emperor Emeritus Akihito, who abdicated in favor of his son in 2019 ... in the name of Naruhito’s grandfather Hirohito. Over the decades since Japan’s defeat ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted New Year’s well-wishers who gathered at the Imperial ...

Image: AP/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool Also standing on the balcony was Emperor Emeritus Akihito, who abdicated in favor of his son in 2019, and his wife Empress Emerita Michiko ... Historically, World War II ...

President Joe Biden, facing serious questions about advanced age, prioritized America over self-interest, passing the torch to extremely well-prepared ...

Emperor Hirohito's scratchy penmanship will be on show for the first time with a collection of rare handwritten “waka” poems he composed in his waning years. The special exhibition at the ...

The Japanese writer and nationalist, a darling of the US far right, was haunted by the aesthetics of self-destruction.

The rapper became a father for the first time in 1990 with the birth of his son, Joey. After he was born with Down syndrome and diagnosed with autism, Joey’s biological mother left the family ...

The princess was the widow of Prince Mikasa, the youngest brother of the late Emperor Hirohito, posthumously ... where Mikasa attended his induction ceremony as a member of the Academie des ...