For the first time in modern history, Japan has an Emperor and Emperor Emeritus at the same time. Some have raised concerns it could look like there are two symbols of the state. But the Imperial ...

This major new volume presents innovative recent scholarship on Japan's modern history, including its imperial past and transregional entanglements. An international team of leading scholars offer ...

Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has ...

That would be an incorrect answer. We need to shift the focus to the Far East because that is where Japan is, whose kōshitsu, or Imperial House, has been at the helm of the country for over two and a ...

This book examines a key question of modern Japanese politics: why the Meiji oligarchs were unable to design institutions capable of protecting their power. The authors question why the oligarchs ...

When Japan's Emperor Naruhito ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne in May 2019, after the abdication of his father, he vowed to bring the royal family into the modern age. Five years later, the world ...

In 1926, when Japanese Emperor Hirohito ascended the Imperial throne ... vowed to bring the country's royal family into the modern age when he took over five years ago. And on Monday, the royal ...

Japan has lodged a protest with a U.N. human rights watchdog that called for reviewing a domestic law that limits imperial succession to male heirs on the emperor's father side, the top government ...