The Tokugawa Shogunate needed an ideology for maintaining a class ... The West became the source of values for Japan. The imperial state of the Meiji Era came into being through the somewhat ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (4th, L), Empress Masako (5th, L), their daughter Princess Aiko (4th, R) and other imperial family members wave to well-wishers from a balcony at the Imperial Palace in ...

The Imperial Household Agency said that its official Instagram account showcasing the activities of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako has been viewed more than 200 million times and received about ...

Destroyers for the Imperial Japanese Navy were among the vessels built ... The dock is only open to the public during events or for guided tours. “The Japanese Ideology Chapter 7” was performed as ...

TOKYO, Japan - Japan said it would not fund a UN women's rights committee and suspended a member's visit over calls for the nation to change its male-only imperial succession rules. Chief cabinet ...

The Japanese government on Wednesday announced countermeasures against a U.N. committee on discrimination against women that has called for reviewing Japan's male-only imperial succession law. The ...

This in protest of the panel's recommendation to revise Japan’s male-only imperial succession law, the Foreign Ministry said on Jan. 29. Toshihiro Kitamura, press secretary at the Foreign ...

TOKYO — Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an end to the country’s male-only imperial succession rule.

Japan has lodged a protest with the committee, saying the imperial succession system is linked to Japan's "foundation" and that the reference to the law is "unacceptable" and should be deleted ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an end to the country's male-only imperial succession rule.