Japanese lawmakers are close to a breakthrough that will ensure the years of strife and panic that plagued the Imperial ...

Japan's royal family wrapped up a two day visit to Okinawa Thursday, where they paid respects to the victims of a World War ...

The Imperial House of Japan is not a normal family. It is the oldest existing hereditary monarchy in the world, a mysterious clan descended from the gods of Japanese mythology. The family is also ...

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 ...

FUKUOKA -- The stately main building at the former Kyushu Imperial University's Faculty ... as a registered tangible cultural property of Japan. (Japanese original by Minoru Kanazawa, Kyushu ...

Tokyo, June 4 (Jiji Press)--Japanese ruling and opposition parties are highly likely to postpone a decision on ways to secure the number of Imperial Family members as the ruling Liberal Democratic ...

(Kyodo) NAHA (Kyodo) -- Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako ... Princess Aiko on her first trip to the prefecture. The imperial family visited the national cemetery in Itoman and laid ...

The Battle of Okinawa, which began in late March 1945 and lasted approximately three months, claimed the lives of more than 200,000 U.S. and Imperial Japanese Army troops and civilians ...

Japan's Emperor and Empress ... After arriving at the mausoleum, the Imperial family prayed in front of the charnel house, which holds the remains of more than 180,000 people, and then laid ...

University of Guam professor emerita of Japanese language, Toyoko Poong-Ja Kang, has been awarded “The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette,” according to the Consulate-General of ...