The two chambers of parliament plan to resume talks Jan. 31 on measures to secure a sufficient number of imperial family ...

Under the Imperial House Law, only male descendants can take ... This is the second enthronement ceremony since Japan's post-war Constitution took effect in 1947. The document redefined the ...

"The world just assumed that that [on 1 May] was the combined celebration, but the real celebration is what's happening now," Ken Ruoff, author of Japan's Imperial House in the Postwar Era ...

Fire billowed from every house and ... two faithful Japanese friends and cause the enclosed check to be given to Arata Endo, my faithful assistant in the building of the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo.

The charming scene of imperial family talking excitedly about their beloved pets and sharing photos with a party guest, contemporary artist Tadanori Yokoo, became a hot topic across Japan.

Emperor Naruhito expressed his wishes for the people’s well-being and the nation’s development at an annual New Year reception at the Imperial Palace. Naruhito and Empress Masako received New ...

passing on the tragic memories to the next generation and highlighting the pursuit of peace by Japan's first emperor born after the war, the source said. The imperial couple plan to visit the ...

when it was built at the request of the Imperial family to house the many foreigners flocking to Japan. Frank Lloyd Wright redesigned the Imperial in 1920, but that building was replaced by the ...