Negotiations for the first Japanese emperor to visit China in 1992 were kept so secret that the prime minister at the time, Kiichi Miyazawa, complained he was not sufficiently consulted.

Pope Leo XIV is a member of the Order of Saint Augustine, the oldest monastic order, and as Prior General of the order, he ...

After his first trip to Hiroshima in 1949 at the age of 15, Emperor Emeritus Akihito consistently visited the cenotaph and never forgot the hibakusha whenever he traveled there.

The author speaks on the Nagano Prefecture town's unique positioning between Japan and the West, literary tradition and ...

After years of admiring kei vans on the streets of Japan and wishing I had one to drive at home in Colorado, I took the ...

Emperor Naruhito specialises in water transport, while his father, Emperor Emeritus Akihito (who abdicated in 2019), researches fish.

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Emperor penguin populations are falling much faster than expected. Ice is melting beneath their chicks before they’re ready.

Emperor penguins may live in some of the most remote and environmentally pristine regions in the world, but that doesn't mean they're safe from the impacts of a warming planet.