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.

German historian and journalist Wieland Wagner called for Japanese to address the problems of their symbolic emperor system, ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, April 30. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has paid tribute to abdicating Japanese Emperor Akihito, the telegram was published on the official Kremlin website on Tuesday.

Empress Emerita Michiko is now 90 years old. This year marked the sixty-fifth anniversary of her marriage to Emperor Emeritus Akihito. Empress Emerita Michiko celebrates her ninetieth birthday on ...

Former Emperor Akihito (L) and his wife former Empress Michiko at their residence in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Imperial Household Agency)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's former ...

The couple retired after Akihito abdicated in 2019 as their son, Emperor Naruhito, ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne and his wife, Masako, became empress. Since then, Akihito and Michiko have ...