The four-minute radio address ended a war, obliterated the 20-year imperial ideology, and began Japan's rebirth into what it is today. AP. On this day in 1945, one week after atomic bombs had ...

Japanese mourned universally last week the death of Field Marshal Viscount Kageakira Kawamura, 76, whose life exactly spanned the modern Imperial Era of Japan. At his birth (1850) the last Shogun ...

THE shrinking number of Japan’s imperial family members is a grave problem for the country. As things stand, only three members are eligible to ascend to the Chrysanthemum Throne, and unease ...

Japan’s imperial family is the world’s oldest monarchy — but it’s also one of the most fragile. With only three heirs, no reigning empress allowed and billions of yen in taxpayer funding at stake, the ...

The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one ...

The LDP hosts a “constant struggle between people who favor more moderate patriotism and versus those favoring a more extreme nationalism. We see this not only in the LDP but within Abe himself.” ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has finally admitted that the future of the Chrysanthemum Throne is in peril. Speaking on the eve of his state visit to the UK in mid-June, Naruhito noted that the number of ...