The Imperial Household Agency on Monday announced details of a New Year's greetings event by the imperial family, which will ...

But Japanese law requires her to renounce her royal status and leave the family if she marries outside the imperial family.

Japan’s Princess Aiko turns 23 as doubts about her future in imperial family remain - Aiko, the only child of Emperor ...

Marking her 23rd birthday on Dec. 1, Princess Aiko fondly recalled the first trip she made outside Tokyo alone this autumn as ...

AS the nation’s popular Princess Aiko (pic) turns 23, she has taken on more official duties even while her future in the ...

Crown Prince Fumihito, the younger brother of Emperor Naruhito, said ahead of his 59th birthday on Saturday that the opinions ...

Her death reduces Japan’s rapidly dwindling imperial family to 16 people, and only 4 men, as the country faces questions ...

Thousands of people on Saturday walked along the Imperial Palace's Inui-dori (road) in Tokyo to enjoy the late autumn foliage ...

Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has ...

Princess Mikasa, the oldest member of Japan's royal family and great aunt to the emperor, died aged 101 on Friday in a Tokyo ...

She was 101. Yuriko died Friday at a Tokyo hospital, the Imperial Household Agency said. It did not announce the cause of death, but Japanese media said she died of pneumonia. Born in 1923 as an ...

Yuriko died Friday at the age of 101 in a Tokyo hospital, the Imperial Household Agency said. It did not announce the cause of death. Born in 1923 as an aristocrat, Yuriko married at age 18 to ...