MATSUE -- A group photo showing Emperor Taisho (1879-1926) with some 260 people in this west Japan city in 1907, when he was crown prince, has been found, highlighting his interaction with commoners ...

ISE, Mie Prefecture--Recently discovered film footage from the Taisho Era (1912-1926) shows Empress Sadako visiting Ise Jingu shrine to pray for her husband’s recovery as well as a newlywed in Kyoto ...

TOKYO — The long-awaited funeral procession for Japanese Emperor Hirohito solemnly passed through the Imperial Palace gates today as part of a daylong ceremony reflecting Japan’s modern role as a ...

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO The Japanese imperial system, reduced to a symbolic role since the end of World War II, is viewed as the last bastion of tradition by many older Japanese while the younger ...

Aperiod of Japanese history largely unknown in the West -- or at least skipped in the popular progression from "Shogun" to Commodore Perry, Emperor Meiji, World War II, and now, kimono, Godzilla and ...

HIROHITO: EMPEROR OF JAPAN by Leonard Mosley. 371 pages. Prentice-Hall. $7.95. According to ancient doctrine, Hirohito is the 124th direct descendant of Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess. All his childhood ...

The last time a Japanese emperor died, Sanpei Hasegawa was 25 years old and the ancient village of Yase, tucked away in the jagged green hills on the northeast edge of Kyoto, responded the way it had ...