The Japanese royals brought symbolic gifts, a black lacquerware box for the King and a brocade handbag for the Queen, plus a framed photo of the emperor and empress. The lacquerware was a ...

The bulk of Uniqlo founder Tadashi Yanai’s latest donation will support “Japan Past & Present,” which is designed to ...

The term "samurai" comes from the Japanese word saburau ... referring to their loyalty to the emperor. By the 10th century, when provincial governors began offering heavy rewards for military ...

Four newly translated Japanese texts describe how ritual samurai beheadings were supposed to take place during the Edo period ...

During World War II, a series of cellars in Germany was destroyed. From the wreckage, archaeologists unearthed a rare ...

Shin Emperor is the full brother of the 2020 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Sottsass, and seeks to give Japan it's ...

However, what we will hear from Japanese Emperor Akihito on August 15 will be equally—if not more—important. In June, at the banquet to welcome visiting Filipino President Benigno Aquino III ...

The 83-year-old emperor will step down on April 30, 2019, becoming the first Japanese monarch to do so in two centuries. Since his reign began in 1989, Emperor Akihito has often embodied Japan’s ...

For millions of Japanese, it brought home in an entirely new way the notion that they had lost the war. Emperor Hirohito, 1945. Library of Congress. The man known as Tenno to his subjects and ...

Japan will enter a new era on May 1 when Crown ... The Crown Prince was born on February 23, 1960, and is the eldest son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. He was the first child in the ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako plan to face up to Japan’s wartime history on their visit to Indonesia, a country Japan occupied for more than three years until its defeat in World War II in ...