In 2019, Japan enjoyed its highest foreign visitor numbers on record, rounding off a ten year period of growth in the nation’s tourism sector. Japan’s 2019 Tourist Travel Boom in Numbers 1. The number ...

Naruhito's grandfather, Hirohito, known posthumously as the Emperor Showa, was treated as a god but renounced his divine ...

Upon his arrival in Japan, President Donald Trump’s first stop was at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, where he was welcomed by ...

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Japan hanged three death-row inmates on Tuesday, its first executions in two years, amid growing criticism by human rights groups of the country's use of the death penalty. One of the three, Yasutaka ...

5:30 p.m. Outside the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo, where Trump is due to meet Emperor Naruhito, a crowd of onlookers has ...