From the 1870s through the 1920s, Japan underwent rapid and widespread modernization and nation-building. In the Meiji period, Japanese leaders looked to European models of constitutional monarchy, ...

Princess Aiko, the 22-year-old daughter of Emperor Naruhito, faces a life wedded to public duty - but, as current laws stand, she'll never be able to take to the country's Chrysanthemum Throne.

Under the constitution written by the US, Japan became a constitutional monarchy with the emperor kept on as "symbol of the state" who is forbidden from being involved in politics. The ...

The Japanese imperial family is considered to be the world's oldest monarchy, with an unbroken line of male succession that can be traced back two millennia. Mythology, recognised by the Imperial ...

The moment Japan's new emperor inherits the Imperial Treasures Some constitutional duties ... emperor but are based on cabinet decision. The monarchy is closely entwined with Shintoism, the ...

Being the defining embodiment of globalisation and modernity, the UN ultimately has a right to intervene in a country’s constitutional ... then the monarchy does not represent all Japanese ...

Japan’s constitutional debate is about not simply the document’s past but also the nation’s ability to respond to these twenty-first-century challenges. Debate over the constitution is not ...

When Japan's Emperor Naruhito ascended the Chrysanthemum ... Five years later, the world's oldest continuing monarchy is grappling with a question as old as monarchy itself: succession.