It is the palace where the generations of Emperors and Empresses of Japan have lived starting in the Meiji era ... but it became the palace for the Imperial family in 1868. It had been called kyujo ...

“We should base succession on the male line and be cautious about establishing female Imperial branches,” Japan Innovation Party leader and Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura told reporters at the Osaka ...

The Imperial Couple's daughter Princess Aiko joined the conversation after dinner. Japan's Imperial Family has long-standing friendships with various royal families around the world. Since this ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito planted rice seedlings at a paddy inside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Wednesday. The Emperor's grandfather, late Emperor Showa, started the tradition as a way to ...

Japanese mourned universally last week the death of Field Marshal Viscount Kageakira Kawamura, 76, whose life exactly spanned the modern Imperial Era of Japan. At his birth (1850) the last Shogun ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun 16:57 JST, May 8, 2025 The Emperor, the Empress and their daughter Princess Aiko will visit Okinawa Prefecture from June 4 to 5 in the year of the 80th anniversary of the end of ...

As it does so, the liquid forms a seal at the top of the tube due to surface tension of the liquid, allowing for the liquid to be siphoned out of your glass, and making you look like a massive ...

Japan's Emperor and Empress ... More than 200,000 people were killed. The Imperial Household Agency says Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Princess Aiko will begin their two-day trip to ...

TOKYO, May 2 (Xinhua) -- An employee at Japan's Imperial Palace has been dismissed for allegedly stealing cash totaling 3.6 million yen (about 24,900 U.S. dollars) set aside for personal expenses for ...

Japan's Imperial Household Agency said Thursday its YouTube channel launched about a month ago has earned a "Silver" award from the operator Google LLC for achieving 100,000 subscribers. The channel ...