Japan’s conservatives have denounced a recent United Nations committee recommendation urging the nation to change its laws to allow a woman to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne, accusing it of ...

Japan's Imperial Household Agency says 101-year-old Princess Mikasa, whose given name is Yuriko, is in deteriorating condition with declining organ functions. The princess is the widow of Prince ...

Oita, Nov. 10 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attended the 43rd national marine convention, held in the southwestern city of Oita, the capital of the namesake prefecture ...

Imperial family members are paying visits to ... Princess Yuriko’s granddaughter, Princess Akiko, returned to Japan from Britain on Saturday morning after having been informed of her condition ...

The photographer's desire was fueled by her many conversations with Teruhisa Kitahara about his love for what was previously a villa of the former Prince Takeda, who seceded from the imperial ...

And Trump has their entire party under his thumb. The US presidency has long been described as imperial, but Trump will be making himself even more powerful than most Roman emperors. Consider just ...

European countries expanded their colonies in Asia and Africa. By the mid-19th century, the western powers had forced the Qing dynasty of China and Japan to open their doors and then asked the same of ...

China. This paper studies the relationship between military conflicts and state-building in pre-imperial China. I develop an incomplete contract model to examine rulers’ and local administrators’ ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attended the 43rd national marine convention held in the city of Oita on Sunday morning. While showing concern over the impact of climate change and marine ...

Renovation of the new residence for Emperor Naruhito and his family, the former Fukiage Sento Palace on the Imperial Palace grounds, has been completed and is ready for a September move-in date.

China and Japan are major trade partners, but their relationship is complicated by Beijing's regional rise to prominence, Tokyo's alliances with Western nations and its imperial history.

The incident is the latest between China and Japan around disputed islands in the East China Sea. A China coastguard vessel sails near a Japan coastguard vessel off one of the disputed islands ...