April 1, 2019 – The Japanese government announces that Naruhito’s reign will be known as the “Reiwa” era. The era, whose name includes the character for “harmony,” will formally begin once the new ...

Japan's royal family, the oldest continuous hereditary monarchy, have launched an updated website amid its succession crisis.

Japan’s Supreme Court rendered judgment in January on a suit that was initially brought by 27 Korean plaintiffs in 2013. The ...

Conservatives within his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) are urging him to stay silent on August 15, the date Emperor Hirohito ... Japan’s relations with its neighbours. Since Ishiba ...

James M. Catterson, the attorney representing East End Hangars, one of the hangar associations at East Hampton Airport, ...

No matter how many times it is vanquished or decisively discredited, ‘Palestinianism’ persists as an ideology unwilling to ...

It remains unclear when Japan’s royal house ... within the imperial household, Emperor Taisho had four sons, among them Emperor Showa, known as Hirohito in his lifetime, with Empress Teimei.

The Japan-China ... visit as it has become increasingly isolated from the international community. China would appear to be asking too much by requesting a visit by the emperor.

LED by Consul Akiko Tejima, the Consular Office of Japan on Saipan hosted the birthday celebration of Japanese Emperor Naruhito at the Fiesta ... to ongoing wars and conflicts,” she said. Tejima ...

It must still be enacted by a vote of this year’s assembly before it can become church law ... last month that it would build for Emperor Hirohito a $26 million palace to replace one wrecked ...

Dec. 7, 1941 – that the Japanese attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Although America learned of the attack via radio ...

Furthermore, he was utterly convinced that the Japanese army had been personally led by Emperor Hirohito ... conviction, that Hirohito had been a pacifist pawn, manipulated by right–wing and ...