Royal watchers and experts fear the new measures could doom the 1,500-year-old hereditary institution by insisting that only ...

New Zealand's main military partners are weaponising sea drones and using them in actual attacks - video has captured the ...

Japan on Friday enacted a controversial new law prohibiting desecration of the national flag, a key right-wing agenda pushed by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ...

Hideki Makihara, Japan’s former Justice Minister has claimed that the minister in charge of the bullet train project was ...

For the first time since 1949, Japan has updated its Imperial House Law to expand the number of eligible members of the Japanese royal family, but the new rule continues to exclude women. Princess ...

Former Japanese Minister Makihara also pointed to the exclusion of Japanese technology from the signalling system—the ...

Japan's imperial family faces a succession dilemma as debates intensify over reforming male-only inheritance laws. Public ...

Japan’s first female prime minister helped ensure that women will continue to be barred from ascending to the Imperial throne ...

A popular princess drives support for having a female Japanese Emperor. But the country's first female prime minister opposes ...