The Emperor speaks at a press conference at the Imperial Palace on Feb. 20. “I am deeply saddened by the loss of many precious lives in the war,” the Emperor said at a press conference held on the ...

A revolutionary postcard cost, on average, ten kopecks, no more than a photographic postcard of a famous actor or a noteworthy palace or landscape, but as much as a schoolteacher or factory worker ...

Inui Street in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo has been open to the public since March 29. It will be open for nine days until April 6. Visitors can walk along about the 750-meter-long one-way street ...

The Imperial Palace in Tokyo opened part of its grounds to the general public for spring on March 29. Since 2014, Inui Street has been open to the public twice a year: in spring, when the cherry ...

Princess Mako prayed at the three sanctuaries within the Imperial Palace on Oct. 19, but she did so differently from past female imperial family members. By deciding to marry her college ...

Ceremonies were held at the Imperial Palace and the imperial graveyard on the outskirts of Tokyo on June 16 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of Empress Kojun, grandmother of ...