As Japan marks the 100th anniversary of broadcasting in the country this year, the raison d'etre of this means of communication and what roles it can ...

Over the years, anime has overcome a series of obstacles: from the mundane pressures of limited budgets to natural disasters.

she became fascinated about a place that started out as a grand piece of imperial propaganda meant to celebrate Japan’s prewar colonization of large swaths of Asia. In recent years, the ...

Sackler Gallery through March 8. Organized by the Imperial Household Agency, the Agency for Cultural Affairs, the Japan Foundation and the Freer and Sackler galleries, "Twelve Centuries of ...

In December 1941, Imperial Japan opened the Pacific theater of World War Two with two acts of stunning shortsightedness. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the near-simultaneous invasion of the Malay ...

Once a symbol of rebellion and girlhood, the cartoon cat has become a cultural ambassador—part of Japan’s global soft ... brutal occupation under Japanese imperial rule just decades earlier.

a scandal seen as damaging to the imperial family. The couple opted not to have a public wedding ceremony and left Japan to live in the United States.

(Photo courtesy of the Imperial Household Agency) (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Imperial Household Agency said Friday it will launch its official YouTube channel next month to showcase the ...

TOKYO, Japan — Japan's ancient imperial family will launch a YouTube account next week, the government said Friday, in the latest attempt at public outreach by the tradition-bound monarchy.

TOKYO: The Emperor and Empress have begun their “memorial trips” to pay their respects to the war dead in various parts of Japan ... nature of peace. The Imperial couple has visited Iwoto ...

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 ...