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IMPERIAL FAMILY

Princess Aiko has tested positive for COVID-19, the Imperial Household Agency said Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2025
Princess Aiko tests positive for COVID-19
The princess underwent testing after reporting a fever of about 38.5 degrees Celsius and throat pain at noon Tuesday.
Princess Nobuko (left) and Princess Akiko attend Prince Hisahito's 'kakan no gi' coming-of-age ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Sept. 6.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2025
Princess Akiko to become head of Mikasa family
The position had been held by her late grandmother, Princess Yuriko, who passed away in November 2024.
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako talk to students at a school for people with visual impairment in Shiga Prefecture on Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2025
Emperor and empress visit school for low-vision people
The school is the prefecture's only institution specializing in education for students with low vision.
Prince Hisahito looks at the Grand Ring during his visit to the Osaka Expo on Thursday.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2025
Prince Hisahito inspects Osaka Expo's Grand Ring
The 19-year-old prince looked around the Grand Ring's architectural structure from underneath before making his way to the top to view the expo from above.
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako greet British Prince Edward and his wife at the entrance of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2025
Japan's imperial couple host tea party for British Prince Edward and wife
Earlier on Friday, Prince Edward and his wife met with Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko at their residence in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
The full official records of Empress Kojun, the wife of former Emperor Hirohito, posthumously called Emperor Showa. The Imperial Household Agency plans to release all of the content of the records on Oct. 9.
JAPAN
Sep 19, 2025
Japan completes full records of Empress Kojun
The Imperial Household Agency took 17 years to complete the full records for Empress Kojun, the paternal grandmother of Emperor Naruhito.
Emperor Naruhito delivers his address at the opening ceremony of the 40th National Cultural Festival and the 25th National Arts and Culture Festival for Persons with Disabilities, as Empress Masako looks on, in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Sunday.
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2025
Emperor and empress attend opening ceremony of national cultural festivals
Emperor Naruhito expressed hopes that the events "will lead to the vitality needed to create new culture."
Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, offer flowers at a monument marking the hypocenter of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in Nagasaki Peace Park on Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2025
Emperor Naruhito and family pay their respects in Nagasaki
The family is slated to meet with people living in a special elderly nursing home for atomic bomb survivors on Saturday.
Crown Princess Kiko, who turned 59 on Thursday, and Crown Prince Akishino at their home in Tokyo last month
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2025
Crown Princess Kiko turns 59 with relief after son's coming-of-age
The crown princess expressed her desire for Prince Hisahito to "embrace every responsibility, play his role and walk his own way."
Prince Hisahito (right) smiles during a luncheon celebrating his coming of age in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2025
Luncheon celebrates Prince Hisahito's coming of age
The luncheon was hosted by the Crown Prince and Crown Princess Kiko and attended by about 30 guests.
Prince Hisahito (right) visits Ise Shrine's Geku outer shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2025
Prince Hisahito visits Ise Shrine after coming-of-age ceremony
The prince, second in line to the throne, underwent his coming-of-age ceremony on Saturday.
Princess Aiko (center) attends the 10th national conference on disaster management held in the city of Niigata on Sunday.
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2025
In imperial family first, Princess Aiko attends disaster-related conference
Princess Aiko joined two sessions, both of which were related to the January 2024 major earthquake that struck the Noto Peninsula.
Prince Hisahito concludes his elaborate "kakan no gi" coming-of-age ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN
Sep 6, 2025
Japan prince comes of age as succession crisis looms
The nephew of Emperor Naruhito, Prince Hisahito, on Saturday received a black silk and lacquer crown at the ceremony, which marks the beginning of his royal adult life.
Prime Minister Yoshio Mori declared in September 2000 that Japan must “grab the historic opportunity of the IT revolution."
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Sep 6, 2025
Japan Times 2000: Prime minister pitches ‘e-Japan’ as way of life
Japan must “grab the historic opportunity of the IT revolution,” Prime Minister Yoshio Mori declared as the final Diet session of the century opened in September 2000.
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako met two former residents of Iwo Jima on Tuesday at the Nasu Imperial Villa in the town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2025
Emperor and empress meet former Iwo Jima residents
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako met two former residents of Iwo Jima, a remote Tokyo island in the Pacific, at the Nasu Imperial Villa in the town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, on Tuesday.
Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko strolled through a cabbage field in Ohinata settlement in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2025
Emperor emeritus and empress emerita visit postwar settlement
The former Emperor and former Empress have frequently visited the settlement, developed by people who returned to Japan from Manchuria in northeastern China after World War II.
The Imperial Household Agency on Tuesday announced the details of the coming-of-age ceremony for Prince Hisahito, set for Sept. 6, his 19th birthday.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2025
Details of Prince Hisahito's coming-of-age ceremony announced
It will be the first coming-of-age ceremony for a male imperial family member in 40 years.
Emperor Emeritus Akihito is accompanied by Empress Emerita Michiko as he leaves the University of Tokyo Hospital on Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2025
Emperor emeritus diagnosed with another heart disorder
In 2022, the emperor emeritus was diagnosed with right heart failure caused by tricuspid valve insufficiency.
Emperor Emeritus Akihito is accompanied by Empress Emerita Michiko as he travels to the University of Tokyo Hospital on Monday.
JAPAN / Society
Jul 14, 2025
Japan's Emperor Emeritus admitted to hospital to begin new heart treatment
Dosage for the new treatment will be decided after the 91-year-old former emperor undergoes an electrocardiogram.
Emperor Naruhito plays the viola at a banquet hosted by the Mongolian first couple on July 8 in Ulaanbaatar.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 13, 2025
Japan's emperor and empress deepen ties with Mongolia
At the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII, the Emperor and Empress paid tribute to Japanese who died in Mongolia during the aftermath of the war.

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