The panel has been meeting to fulfill the government's obligation under a 2017 special measures law allowing then Emperor Akihito’s abdication to discuss how to overcome challenges to stable ...
Following his grandfather Akihito’s abdication, his uncle became Emperor Naruhito on May 1 and Hisahito became second in line to the throne. In August of the same year, during the summer ...
TOKYO (AFP): In a rare emotional address ahead of his abdication next year, Japanese Emperor Akihito said he took “deep comfort” that his long reign had been one of peace as he remembered the ...
Only four out of 16 members of Naruhito's family are male, following Emperor Emeritus Akihito's abdication in 2019. Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako share only one child, Princess Aiko ...
Naruhito conveys a message of peace in this 2025, which also marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima ...
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, marking his 65th birthday, stressed the importance to keep telling the tragedy of the World War II ...
Prior to Akihito, the last emperor to abdicate was Emperor Kokaku in 1817 in the later part of the Edo Period, and the royal male line is unbroken, records show, for at least 14 centuries.