TOKYO -- Around two-thirds of people in Japan have an interest in the Imperial Family, while 70% favor allowing women to inherit the throne, the results of a Mainichi Shimbun national survey ...

The National Archives of Japan has disclosed to researchers the names of members of biological warfare units that the former Imperial Japanese Army had stationed in China. Researchers hope the ...

THE shrinking number of Japan’s imperial family members is a grave problem for the country. As things stand, only three members are eligible to ascend to the Chrysanthemum Throne, and unease ...

TOKYO -- Behind-the-scenes photos of the Japanese Imperial Family tend to get many "likes" on the Imperial Household Agency's official Instagram account, as the agency seeks to engage with the ...

Working together to share military secrets and intelligence, Imperial Japan would benefit greatly from their collaboration with Hitler's Germany. In particular, the Japanese took a great interest ...

Princess Yuriko Mikasa of Japan in Tokyo, Japan on June 1, 2010. On Nov. 15, 2024, the Imperial Household Agency announced that Princess Yuriko, the oldest member of the imperial family ...

On a larger scale, the royal’s death brings Japan’s “rapidly dwindling” Imperial family to just 16 people, CNN reported, “as the country faces the dilemma of how to maintain the royal ...

She died on Friday at a Tokyo hospital, the Imperial Household Agency said. Yuriko's death means the total number of people making up Japan's royal family has waned to just 16. The palace did not ...

Tokyo (AP) — Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has died after her health deteriorated recently, palace ...

But approval for having women on the imperial throne has continued to grow in Japan. A recent poll suggested 90% of public support for a change to the law to enable women to take the throne.

Set solely with diamonds and designed around the Imperial Seal of Japan, it is only worn by the Empress. The tiara was made for Empress Teimei in 1917 by jewellers Mikimoto, the firm famous for ...