Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attended a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako flew from Haneda Airport on the morning of January 16 to attend the Memorial ...

Japan marks 30 years since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. The magnitude 7.3 tremor devastated the city of Kobe and ...

Emperor Naruhito expressed his hope that people will work together to overcome challenges such as natural disasters and ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family waved from a balcony window to throngs of New Year’s well-wishers, some shouting, “Banzai,” which means “long live,” while others waved small paper Japanese ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about how the Japanese Emperor spends the first days of ...

Also standing on the balcony was Emperor Emeritus Akihito, who abdicated in favor of his son in 2019, and his wife Empress Emerita Michiko, as well as Naruhito’s younger brother and his family.

Hyogo Prefecture is also calling on the central government to pick Kansai as the base of a new disaster relief agency ...

The Imperial Household Agency is considering visits by Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako to Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Okinawa prefectures next year to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World ...