His Majesty claims to be divinely begotten descendant of Japan’s Sun Goddess, and is therefore sanctified in his own right. So far as rank is concerned there is only one other reigning emperor ...

Japanese people had never seen an emperor behave like this before. To conservatives it was a shock. This is not how the direct descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu should behave. But many more ...

According to legends, the royal family are descendants of the sun ... the constitution written by the US, Japan became a constitutional monarchy with the emperor kept on as "symbol of the state ...

There are those who claim that the Mikado, the Japanese emperor, is a descendant of the Hebrew tribe of Gad. 'Mikado' recalls the Hebrew word for 'his majesty the king,' 'Malchuto'. In the latter ...

Emperor, and even monk-led conflicts had wracked the entire country, ending the troubled Ashikaga Bakufu. By 1630, Ieyasu and his descendants enacted radical events that changed Japan, unlike the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted throngs of New Year’s well-wishers from a balcony window at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Thursday. Some shouted “banzai ...