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 ...

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 ...

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.

OFUNATO, Iwate -- A photographer in this northeast Japan city, where a major forest ... school events he covered to a family here whose own pictures were lost to the fire. Fourteen years ago ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako ... Dressed in black, the imperial couple visited three memorials on the island. Relatives of the fallen watched on in the ...