Mako, who is the niece of Japan's Emperor Naruhito, left the royal family in 2021 when she married her former college classmate Kei Komuro, a commoner.

In 2001, shortly before Japan and South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup, then-Emperor Akihito acknowledged the Korean link to his eighth-century forefather.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s beloved former Emperor Akihito marked his 91st birthday on Monday, as he continues to pursue his lifetime research into goby fish, care for his wife and pray for peace.

On Tuesday, the Japanese prime minister officially announced that Japanese Emperor Akihito had abdicated ...

Empress Emerita Michiko is now 90 years old. This year marked the sixty-fifth anniversary of her marriage to Emperor Emeritus Akihito.

Emperor Naruhito is touring the famous botanic gardens this week as part of a state visit to Britain with his wife, Empress Masako.

Emperor Naruhito of Japan has admitted his family is running out of heirs amid an ongoing crisis for the monarchy. Japan's strict laws of succession forbid women from ascending to the ...

Naruhito’s father, Emperor Emeritus Akihito — who abdicated the throne in 2019 — and his wife were popular during their reign. But the royal family's fans largely belong to older generations.

His successor Emperor Akihito was educated privately in Japan but tutored by an American quaker. Prior to Akihito’s succession there had been some debate about whether there should even be another ...

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko in 2006. TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/POOL/AFP/Getty Images In 1957, then-Crown Prince Akihito of Japan met the woman who would become his wife during a tennis match.

Two years later, Emperor Akihito issued a formal apology for having introduced the fish to the country in what the Japan Times called “a rare expression of contrition.” “My heart aches to ...

When Emperor Akihito begins his stay in Longmont tonight, he hopes to impress workaday residents as much as the local dignitaries who act as his hosts. Akihito and Empress Michiko are on an 11-day ...