Installed as Crown Prince at the age of fifteen, Hirohito assumed the "Chrysanthemum Throne" in 1926 with the death of his father, the Emperor Yoshihito (now known as the Taisho Emperor ...

Installed as Crown Prince at the age of fifteen, Hirohito assumed the "Chrysanthemum Throne" in 1926 with the death of his father, the Emperor Yoshihito (now known as the Taisho Emperor ...

The imperial family, like so many families, has its fair share of problems. But in this case, its very survival in its ...

Any discussion of expanding the number of successors to the Chrysanthemum Throne, including proposals to open the way for a woman to become emperor, is off the table for now. A government panel ...

The popular Akihito stunned Japan when he announced in 2016 that he wanted to give up the Chrysanthemum Throne, citing his ... given the role his father Hirohito played in the country's ...

elaborate thrones and ancient paraphernalia adorned Tuesday’s sacred and sumptuous ceremony marking the formal ascension of Emperor Naruhito to Japan’s Chrysanthemum Throne. The new emperor ...

In 1926, when Japanese Emperor Hirohito ascended the Imperial throne ... After all, this is a royal family whose Chrysanthemum throne rule and lineage trace millennia, a royal house which did ...

Naruhito, 64, succeeded his father, now styled as the Emperor Emeritus Akihito, when Akihito abdicated the Chrysanthemum Throne in May ... Emperor Hirohito. "I have very fond memories of the ...