Tysoe said his maternal grandfather was mobilized by the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army to build the Thai-Burma railway, also known as the "Death Railway." More than 10,000 POWs are said to ...

TOKYO (TR) – An intoxicated foreign man was arrested by the Imperial Guard Headquarters for trespassing onto the Imperial ...

Japanese Crown Prince Akishino has departed for Thailand, where he will receive ... after exchanging greetings with senior officials of the Imperial Household Agency and others.

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 ...