Meet Frenchman Jules Brunet, the real-life last samurai. Fighting alongside the Shogunate rebels who wanted to maintain ...

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s ...

This combined photo shows Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are planning to make an official weeklong visit to Mongolia in early ...

The trip will be the imperial couple's third official overseas trip to promote international goodwill since his accession, following visits to Indonesia in 2023 and Britain last year. The emperor ...

Wagner noted that there are still limitations to and restrictions on the narrative about the emperor system in the ... and conflict over the future of Japan last year in Germany?

Japan’s rapidly dwindling imperial family currently has only 16 members, including four men. The youngest male member of the imperial family, Prince Hisahito, is currently the last heir apparent ...

One Arab country, Syria, which began its own revolutionary journey right after Tunisia on March 30, 2011, armed rebels managed to oust dictator Bashar Al-Assad only last month, after 14 years of ...

Visitors looking for the "real Japan" may find it on a new long trail two hours from Tokyo that shows off the country's ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Oscar-winning Japanese composer famed for his scores for "The Last Emperor", "Merry Christmas ... in the traditional music of Japan's Okinawa prefecture as well as Indian ...

As he welcomed Shigeru Ishiba to the White House, Donald Trump added that he wasn't ruling out the possibility of tariffs ...

“Everything just seemed more unstable the last ... with Emperor Naruhito sending a formal message and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba posting about his hopes for strengthening the Japan-US ...