FLAGS throughout PNG were flying at half mast yesterday as the country joined others world-wide to respect the death of ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted throngs of New Year’s well-wishers from a balcony window at the ...

The emperor does not have political power but has symbolic significance for Japan. Historically, World War II was fought in the name of Naruhito’s grandfather Hirohito. Over the decades since ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted New Year’s well-wishers who gathered at the Imperial ...

Emperor Hirohito's scratchy penmanship will be on show for the first time with a collection of rare handwritten “waka” poems he composed in his waning years. The special exhibition at the ...

Japan's Empress Emerita Michiko, from left, Emperor Emeritus Akihito, Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako, Princess Aiko, Crown Prince Akishino, Crown Princess Kiko and Princess Kako wave at well ...

Whether you want to watch the original film, Godzilla vs. Kong, or Godzilla Minus One, you can see them all with a little ...

The Japanese writer and nationalist, a darling of the US far right, was haunted by the aesthetics of self-destruction.

They displayed a photo of Emperor Hirohito at their home and prayed every day. Just before the end of the war in 1945, Japanese immigrants who falsely believed Japan won the war formed a group ...