Rarely seen outfits, elaborate thrones and ancient paraphernalia adorned Tuesday’s sacred and sumptuous ceremony marking the formal ascension of Emperor Naruhito to Japan’s Chrysanthemum Throne.

Japanese Emperor Naruhito formally proclaimed his ... weather forced the palace to scale back the number of courtiers in ancient robes taking part in the courtyard ceremony although the skies ...

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Japanese Emperor Naruhito, in a poem recited at the annual New Year's Poetry Reading on Wednesday, expressed how he was ...

The Japanese government decided on January 28 to recommend archaeological sites in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, to ...

The Emperor read out a script written in ancient Japanese to inform them of his abdication. The abdication ceremony was held in the State Room in the Imperial Palace in the evening. Emperor ...

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Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality ...