The Imperial Household embraces the digital era with a revamped website featuring immersive views of the Imperial Palace and ...

Here’s a look at the life of Emperor Naruhito of Japan, the 126th Emperor to ascend to Japan’s Chrysanthemum Throne. Personal Birth date: February 23, 1960 Birth place: Tokyo, Japan Previous name: ...

The couple met with Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh and his wife in Japan in November 2022. According to the Imperial Household Agency, the Emperor and the Empress were invited to Mongolia ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted throngs of New Year’s well-wishers from a balcony window at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Thursday. Some shouted “banzai ...

Ambassadors to Japan and representatives of former ... Then on Jan. 22, the Ceremony of the Utakai Hajime (Imperial New Year's Poetry Reading), where Emperor Naruhito sets a theme for poems ...

when the Emperor was born, it is “the Year of the Ox”), monarchy was enjoying a resurgence of popularity in Japan. Curtain Down. Ever since he told his people, in a New Year’s speech 15 ...

LONDON--At a state banquet at Buckingham Palace, Emperor Naruhito expressed hope ... after times of great difficulty as emperors of Japan at the invitation of Her Late Majesty.” ...

Kanye West has revealed he believes he was an 'Emperor King' in a past life as he explained why he loves being in Japan so much. The American rapper, 37, often spends time in Japan alongside his ...

The unusual step comes in response to a report published in October by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, or CEDAW, urging Japan to revise the male-only succession rule ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Emperor Naruhito, in a poem recited at the annual New Year's Poetry Reading ... the future during official visits across Japan. The emperor and Empress Masako visited ...

urging Japan to revise the male-only succession rule under the Imperial House Law to allow a female emperor. The 1947 law, which largely preserves conservative pre-war family values, only allows a ...