“We will share each other’s pain, cooperate with each other, and patiently overcome COVID-19. I look forward to a brighter future.”
An editorial of The Sankei Shimbun presented in English by JAPAN Forward: ~It is highly regrettable that we became embroiled in debate about making it easy...
It’s been quite the unusual year, especially for the newly-enthroned Emperor of Japan, who ascended the Chrysanthemum throne on May 1, 2019, starting the new...
Emperor Naruhito turned 60 on February 23, a birthday considered a landmark age in the Japanese zodiac calendar. We would like to offer our heartiest congratulations...
Japan’s Emperor Emeritus Akihito, 86, briefly lost consciousness and collapsed on Wednesday, January 29, the Imperial Household Agency disclosed. Akihito underwent an MRI examination,...
Japanese Princess Toshinomiya Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, turned 18 on December 1. In April, Princess Aiko entered...
Questions have been raised as to whether Emperor Naruhito’s enthronement ceremony violated the separation of political and religious institutions established by the Constitution. Criticism...
The enthronement ceremony, or Sokuirei-Seiden-no-Gi, for Japan’s Emperor Naruhito took place in Tokyo on October 22, leading up the climax of the rites of ascension to...
(UPDATED, as of 2:50 P.M., October 22) It was a big day of celebration in Japan as Naruhito, the 126th ruler on the Chrysanthemum throne, ascended...
Japan entered the new Reiwa Era earlier this year as then-Emperor Akihito abdicated on April 30 to become Emperor Emeritus and his son Naruhito ascended...
Crown Prince Akishino, the presumptive heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne, and his wife Princess Kiko visited the Republic of Poland early in the summer of 2019,...
In the history of Japan, there have been 10 instances of females ascending the imperial throne, beginning with the first-ever female emperor, Suiko (554-628). ...
