Emperor Akihito will abdicate on April 30th. It is the first time in more than 200 years that a living Japanese Emperor will hand over the throne. And it brings to a close an era that redefined ...

TOKYO, June 9. /TASS/. The upper chamber of the Japanese parliament unanimously passed a bill paving the way for the abdication of Emperor Akihito and the ascension of his son Crown Prince Naruhito.

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 ...

Not every day does the Emperor of Japan reach such a significant age ... laws of the imperial household do not provide for the abdication of the sovereign. It is enough to remember how complicated ...

TOKYO, July 13. /TASS/. Emperor Akihito of Japan may abdicate in favor of his eldest son, Crown Prince Naruhito, NHK TV channel reported said on Wednesday citing sources at the Imperial Household ...

When Japan's Emperor Naruhito ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne in May 2019, after the abdication of his father, he vowed to bring the royal family into the modern age. Five years later ...

(She and the emperor have a teenage daughter, Princess Aiko.) On May 1, Naruhito ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne following his father’s abdication. In Japanese culture, his reign marks the ...

One way of allowing the Emperor to abdicate would be to revise the Imperial ... In the long history of Japan's Imperial family, nearly half of the Emperors have stepped down.

During Hirohito’s reign, Japanese forces occupied Manchuria, Korea and large parts of southeast Asia. Prior to Akihito, the last emperor to abdicate was Emperor Kokaku in 1817 in the later part ...