Japan's royal family, the oldest continuous hereditary monarchy, have launched an updated website amid its succession crisis.

The imperial family, like so many families, has its fair share of problems. But in this case, its very survival in its ...

As conservatives urge Shigeru Ishiba to follow the late Shinzo Abe’s lead, moderates warn against alienating Japan’s neighbours.

Japan’s Supreme Court rendered judgment in January on a suit that was initially brought by 27 Korean plaintiffs in 2013. The ...

Politicians are leaders, they can fake statesmanship. It is attributed to Lee KuanYew that he once remarked, ‘anybody who ...

No matter how many times it is vanquished or decisively discredited, ‘Palestinianism’ persists as an ideology unwilling to ...

Editor: On Dec.7, 1941, Emperor Hirohito sent his air force to bomb Pearl Harbor, knowing full well that thousands of young Americans would be killed or crippled. He cared less that he ...

and to come to terms with Emperor Hirohito’s abdication of divine authority. These themes come to the fore in the title story of a new English collection of Mishima’s stories, Voices of the ...

The Joinery in Lismore aims to become a flood-resilient cultural hub for NORPA and the Northern Rivers region's performing ...

It was launched in November 1928 to celebrate the ascension of the country’s 124th Emperor, Hirohito. Today, the broadcast is followed by workers, schoolchildren and elderly people hoping to ...

These features center around Aug. 15, the date when Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender in the war. But Takumi Sato, professor of media history at Sophia University, argues that war ...