History tells us there were eight women who ruled as empresses of Japan, but since reforms of the constitution in 1947, only a man can inherit the throne.
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Japan’s 86-year-old Emperor Akihito abdicates on April 30 — an exceedingly rare event for this ancient monarchy. Can his son, Prince Naruhito, give Japan’s royal family a modern makeover?
The country has reached back more than a thousand years into its early literary heritage for an auspicious name for a new era under a new emperor.
Iwao Hakamada was tried for quadruple murder in 1966, but the evidence that convicted him is regarded with widespread scepticism.
US-Japan relations are under pressure. As leaders of the two countries meet this week, a scholar tells the story of the exchange program that made such a difference to American attitudes toward Japan.
As Japanese imperialism rose and fell, its leaders interpreted and re-interpreted a single distinctive concept: “bushido”.
In Japanese popular culture, new trends come and go. But the Japanese have toyed with gender norms for generations.
Martin Scorsese’s new film Silence will be shown to an audience of priests at the Vatican today. It tells the story of persecuted Christians in 17th century Japan - an event still remembered by Nagasaki’s Catholic community.
Mourning a death is natural and necessary, but sometimes politics gets in the way of grief.
Speaking at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Barack Obama sounded a hopeful note – but both the US and Japan still fall short.
The story of 16th century Japanese woman Gracia Hosokawa has been told many times but storytellers can’t agree on whether she was a victim or a hero.
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Lecturer, Language and Culture, Keele University
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Senior Lecturer, Japanese Studies, University of New England
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Professor of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: Europe 1100-1800, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Anthropology and Art History, University of Michigan
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Professor of East Asian History, University of York
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Professor, Director of the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Birkbeck, University of London, Birkbeck, University of London
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Lecturer in Modern European History, Queen's University Belfast
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Lecturer in Japanese Studies, Monash University
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Professor of Mobile Media and Games., RMIT University
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Professor in Translation Studies, SOAS, University of London
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Lecturer in East Asian Religions, Washington University in St. Louis
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Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield
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Lecturer, University of Sheffield
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Lecturer in History of Japanese art and architecture, Trinity College Dublin