JAPANESE Emperor Akihito hinted at his abdication and the establishment of a regency in a rare radio broadcast yesterday. The 82-year-old monarch said that following two operations he worried that he ...

Negotiations for the first Japanese emperor to visit China in ... China repeatedly requested that Emperor Akihito visit after he ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne in 1989. Diplomatic documents ...

Emperor Akihito visited China in October 1992. A Japanese emperor has yet to set foot in South Korea. (This article was written by Naotaka Fujita, a senior staff writer, and Nen Satomi.) ...

Emperor Hirohito, Akihito’s father, visited recuperation homes for war victims and reception centers for repatriates in Japan, but he traveled abroad only twice due mainly to criticism about his ...

Located just over an hour east of Tokyo by shinkansen bullet train, Nasu Highlands is a picturesque region known for its ...

In 1990, Charles attended the Ceremony of Accession for Emperor Akihito, now Emperor Emeritus. In 2008, he visited Japan, but this time with his second wife, Camilla, who was to be crowned Queen ...

Prince Hitachi, the younger brother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito, is third in line ... Hajime Sebata, an associate professor of modern Japanese political history at Ryukoku University in Kyoto ...

Emperor Emeritus Akihito underwent an MRI brain scan on Jan. 30 after fainting the previous evening at his residence in the Imperial Palace grounds. Officials of the Imperial Household Agency said ...

Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko lived in the residence during the Heisei Era (1989-2019). The renovation work had been ongoing since March 2020, almost a year after the new ...

The life and death of acclaimed writer Yukio Mishima is a cautionary reminder of the complex, sometimes dangerous ...

The panel has been meeting to fulfill the government's obligation under a 2017 special measures law allowing then Emperor Akihito’s abdication to discuss how to overcome challenges to stable ...