Princess Yuriko, a great-aunt of Emperor Naruhito, passed away on November 15 at Saint Luke's International Hospital in ...

The Imperial Household Agency announced that Princess Yuriko, aunt of Emperor Emeritus Akihito, died on Nov. 15. She was 101.

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.) ...

The emperor and empress later moved to the city of Beppu and released young marbled flounder and red sea bream into the sea ...

The closing of the U.S. busiest immigrant processing station, the crowning of a new emperor in Japan and the birthday of the “Godfather of Grunge.” ...

The health of Japan’s 101-year-old Princess Yuriko has worsened, the Imperial Household Agency said on Monday. The functioning of Yuriko’s heart, kidney and other organs is declining, said Takeichiro ...

Princess Hisako, the widow of the late Prince Takamado, a cousin of Emperor Emeritus Akihito, will visit the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Krakow to attend a ceremony marking ...

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...

Plymouth becomes the first town incorporated by Parliament. 1555: Parliament re-establishes Catholicism. 1661: Scien ...

MELBOURNE — An emperor penguin found malnourished far from its Antarctic home on the Australian south coast is being cared for by a wildlife expert, a government department said Monday.

An emperor penguin found malnourished far from its Antarctic home on the Australian south coast is being cared for by a wildlife expert, a government department said Monday. The adult male was ...