The hugely popular 23-year-old daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, who is legally forbidden to inherit the ...

Japanese legislators are considering letting the Imperial House Council decide on the status of husbands and children of ...

Among other things, the Imperial House Law specifies procedures for succession to the Chrysanthemum Throne as well as the status of imperial family members under the postwar Constitution.

Throne has carved panels, curved legs and a "Five Dragon" carving on front and back There was frenzied bidding among mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan collectors at the Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong ...

Publisher Bethesda Softworks and developer Bethesda Game Studios have announced The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered for ...

Some 800 people gathered in Tokyo to protest the Japanese government's plan to move toward allowing women to assume the imperial throne. Most of those who joined the Thursday protest were ...

Currently, the law stipulates that successors to the throne must be males from the male line of the imperial lineage. The U.N. committee, which released its “concluding views” on Oct. 29 ...

Only males can ascend the ancient Chrysanthemum Throne and women leave the imperial family if they marry a commoner, with ...

With the Imperial throne offering such enormous power, and the rules of inheritance always open to interpretation, it’s no wonder that members of the royal family jostled for position or used ...

She emerges as the lynch-pin of the family; charming, politically adept, devious, prepared to stop at nothing - including murder - to secure her son’s succession to the imperial throne.

With this in mind, Marcus has decided to turn over his crown and the much-coveted imperial throne to General Livius, instead of choosing his corrupt son and logical successor, Commodus.