The Imperial Household embraces the digital era with a revamped website featuring immersive views of the Imperial Palace and ...

From muscle-bound castles to lavish manor houses, the world is filled with fine stately homes – and many of them happen to be ...

With Japan’s first full-colour film, Carmen Comes Home, screening around the UK, we dive into the luminous world of Japanese colour filmmaking in the 1950s and early 1960s.

If we talk about the number of fatalities and the degree of destruction, three major disasters stand out in Japan. Two are ...

Last year, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women recommended that Japan amend the Imperial House Law to ensure gender equality in Imperial succession. In response, the ...

TOKYO, Japan - Japan said it would not fund a UN women's rights committee and suspended a member's visit over calls for the nation to change its male-only imperial succession rules. Chief cabinet ...

The brilliant bronze emblem of Nataraja, admired across the world, was a gift from the Chola queen, Sembiyan Mahadevi and the imperial projection ... One of the medieval world’s most dazzling ...

Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav on Friday visited Nijo-jo Castle in Kyoto during his four-day official visit to Japan ...

House of Representatives Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga on Friday expressed a wish to quickly finalize measures to address a decrease in imperial family members during the current parliamentary session ...

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an ...

Japan to Halt Funding for a UN Women's Rights Panel Over Call to End Male-Only Imperial Succession TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an end to the country’s male-only imperial succession rule.