Japan’s Emperor Emeritus Akihito will undergo heart tests at a hospital after an unspecified problem was detected during a ...

Japan’s Emperor Emeritus Akihito will be admitted to hospital for heart tests on Tuesday, public broadcaster NHK reported, ...

After some 3.1 million Japanese died in World War II, which they fought in the name of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, the country's postwar Constitution defined an emperor ...

Japan’s Emperor Emeritus Akihito will be admitted ... Akihito, who ascended to the throne after his father, Hirohito, died in 1989, became the first Japanese monarch in 200 years to abdicate ...

Akihito had heart bypass surgery in 2012. Akihito ascended to the throne after his father, Hirohito, died in 1989. No other emperor has abdicated in modern Japanese history. But Akihito has broken ...

Emperor Hirohito's scratchy penmanship will be on show for the first time with a collection of rare handwritten “waka” poems he composed in his waning years. The special exhibition at the ...

Akihito had heart bypass surgery in 2012. Akihito ascended to the throne after his father, Hirohito, died in 1989. No other emperor has abdicated in modern Japanese history. But Akihito has broken ...

Tokyo [Japan], May 6 (ANI): Japan's Imperial Household Agency has announced that Former Emperor Emeritus Akihito ... to the throne after his father, Hirohito, died in 1989, became the first ...

Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989), posthumously known as Emperor Showa, was said to have wished to visit China. In his diary, Sukemasa Irie (1905-1985), who served as the grand chamberlain from 1969 to ...

The Imperial Household Agency announced Monday that Emperor Emeritus Akihito will be hospitalized on Tuesday for examination after being diagnosed with a high possibility of myocardial ischemia.