On September 18, 1931, the explosion of the Japanese-owned railway track near the city of Mukden, Manchuria in northeastern ...

The government of Japan announced that Victor J. Dzau, president of the National Academy of Medicine, was awarded the Order ...

In 1871, a farmer and Civil War veteran from Gorham, Maine, named Horace Wilson, was recruited to teach in Japan as part of ...

From diving off cliffs to starving for months, emperor penguins are continuing to surprise scientists with their ability to adapt to one of the world’s most extreme environments. LEAP OF ...

Wasting“((万歳), means “Hurish” or “ten thousand years” in Japanese, and is written with two kanji which mean those two words.

The Emperor of Japan announced on April 29, the conferral of one of the highest awards the nation of Japan gives to a non-citizen of Japan, The Order of the Rising Sun with Golden Rays, to former San ...

(Mainichi/Michiko Morizono) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Emperor Naruhito has conveyed the imperial family's condolences over the death of Pope Francis to the acting head of the Vatican, Cardinal ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako sent their top close aide Bessho Koro, Grand Chamberlain to the Emperor, to the Vatican Embassy in Japan as a messenger of condolence on April 23. The move ...

Emperor Shah Jahan relocated the Mughal capital from Agra to Delhi, marking a significant shift in the empire's centre of power and leaving a lasting architectural legacy. Shah Jahan envisioned a ...

The Yasukuni Shrine was built in 1869 by Emperor Meiji and was dedicated to the Japanese soldiers who died in the wars since the Meiji restoration. It now honors 2.5 million war dead, including 14 ...

The Emperor and Empress hosted the spring garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens in Motoakasaka, Tokyo, on Tuesday afternoon, welcoming about 1,800 guests.