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

Being a woman born into the country's Imperial House isn't an entirely enviable role; a Japanese princess can currently never be Empress and must lose her royal title if she chooses to wed a commoner.

Japan's decision to take countermeasures when its views are not accepted contradicts its diplomatic stance of valuing the ...

Last spring, three college friends and I decided to take our annual meetup a little farther afield, booking a self-guided ...

Kitamura said that Japan has contributed about 20 million ... limiting imperial succession to males of the patrilineal lineage under the Imperial House Law does not constitute discrimination ...

Wednesday marks 83 years since the signing of a presidential executive order that sent roughly 120,000 innocent Japanese Americans to internment camps.

The unusual step comes in response to a report published in October by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, or CEDAW, urging Japan to revise the male-only succession rule ...

Japan has hit back at a U.N. panel over its recommendation to revise the Imperial House Law by denying it access to the country's voluntary contributions to the Office of the U.N. High ...