A popular princess drives support for having a female Japanese Emperor. But the country's first female prime minister opposes ...

A popular princess drives support for having a female Japanese Emperor. But the country's first female prime minister opposes ...

A law set to pass Friday by Japan’s parliament could doom its 1,500-year-old hereditary institution by insisting that only ...

Japan’s parliament has enacted a historic revision to the 19th-century Imperial House Law by insisting only paternal-lineage males can become emperor ...

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, Chen Kaige’s historical epic, Farewell My Concubine, spans fifty years of 20th-century Chinese history while shining a spotlight on the ...

Japan's Parliament revised the Imperial House Law to cement male-only succession, blocking Princess Aiko from inheriting the ...

As a high-ranking government official, he acknowledged the government’s role in running “comfort stations.” ...

Japan PM Takaichi says draft economic blueprint not cause of bond market rout Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday said she saw no link between her government's draft economic blueprint ...

For the first time since 1949, Japan has updated its Imperial House Law to expand the number of eligible members of the Japanese royal family, but the new rule continues to exclude women. Princess ...

Princess Aiko may retain her imperial title after marriage, but Japan’s new household reform still gives her no legal path to ...

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