By Damian Flanagan There is a curious historical footnote that tends to be forgotten about the Japanese imperial expansion of ...

Tokyo, June 6 (Jiji Press)--The leaders of Japan's two parliamentary chambers Friday confirmed that discussions on proposed ...

Wednesday is the 83rd anniversary of the Battle of Midway, which turned the tide against the Japanese during World War II, ...

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TOKYO -- TOKYO (AP) — Former Japanese princess Mako Komuro has given birth to her first child, palace officials confirmed ...

Japan's Diet on Friday ratified a key defense pact allowing the deployment of Japanese forces for joint drills with Filipino ...

Japanese Princess Yuriko has died aged 101 ... party insist on retaining male-only succession. The 1947 Imperial House Law, which largely preserves conservative pre-war family values, allows ...

Being a woman born into the country's Imperial House isn't an entirely enviable role; a Japanese princess can currently never be Empress and must lose her royal title if she chooses to wed a commoner.

The royal’s health had deteriorated recently following a stroke and pneumonia earlier this year The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Princess Yuriko of Japan, who was the oldest member of the Japanese ...

Japanese Princess Yuriko ... in the governing party insist on retaining male-only succession. The 1947 Imperial House Law, which largely preserves conservative prewar family values, allows ...

Princess Yuriko of Japan, who was the oldest member of the Japanese Imperial Family, has died at 101 years old. Princess Yuriko — the wife of Emperor Hirohito’s brother — died at a Tokyo ...

Her death reduces Japan’s rapidly dwindling imperial family ... party insist on retaining male-only succession. The 1947 Imperial House Law, which largely preserves conservative prewar values ...