Japan's Imperial Household Agency has announced that Former Emperor Emeritus Akihito will be hospitalised in Tokyo on Tuesday ...

Japan’s Emperor Emeritus Akihito will be admitted to hospital for heart tests on Tuesday, public broadcaster NHK reported, ...

The war between the US and Japan had started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The ...

Japan’s Emperor Emeritus Akihito will undergo heart tests at a hospital after an unspecified problem was detected during a ...

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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 ...

His films tapped into the fantasies of disgruntled youth by embracing brazen sexuality and countercultural politics. But ...

How Japanese bullet trains will be an economic gamechanger Nine days before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics opened, Emperor Hirohito of Japan launched the first bullet train that ran from Tokyo to Osaka. The ...