Keio University's Tomohiko Taniguchi — also a special adviser to former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — says the weekend ...

Japan's former Emperor Akihito has been diagnosed with supraventricular tachycardia, a heart rhythm disorder that causes a ...

Japan's 91-year-old former Emperor Akihito has been hospitalized to adjust his heart medication, palace officials say.

Japan's Emperor Emeritus Akihito was discharged from the University of Tokyo Hospital on Friday after receiving an additional ...

Japan's Emperor Emeritus Akihito has been discharged from a hospital in Tokyo after being admitted to the facility on Monday ...

From meeting with Queen Elizabeth II to a revolutionary royal wedding, the oldest living member of Japan's Imperial family's ...

Japan’s former emperor Akihito was hospitalized to adjust his heart medication on Monday, the Imperial Household Agency ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito attended a welcoming ceremony and met with Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh on his first ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has met Mongolia's President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh during a visit aimed at strengthening ties between ...

The 1964 Games Proclaimed a New Japan. There’s Less to Cheer This Time. The country has changed vastly from that hopeful moment nearly six decades ago, and the Olympics this time around have ...

When Japan surrendered to the Allies in 1945, Akihito’s father, Emperor Hirohito, was forced to refute his divine status. As part of postwar negotiations he was allowed to retain his title, but ...