Three million years ago, an extinct relative of today's great penguins—emperors and kings—lived in Aotearoa New Zealand. We know this because our new study published in the Journal of Paleontology ...

Leaders who held significant titles have shaped and governed human societies throughout history. Two of the most prominent titles to denote supreme authority are king and emperor. Beyond both symbols ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito has harvested new rice grown at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, as part of an annual event. In May, the Emperor planted two varieties of rice in the roughly 240-square-meter ...

Investigators are pursuing criminal charges against a wealthy collector who has challenged the assertion that the Roman-era antiquity he bought for $1.3 million had been stolen from Turkey. By Tom ...

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Japan has called on the Chinese government to take steps against a surge of artificial-intelligence videos on Chinese social media mocking Emperor Hirohito, the wartime monarch, warning that the clips ...

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, commemorating 80 years since Tokyo’s defeat in World War II. The spread of images using edited photos of the late emperor, posthumously known in Japan as Emperor Showa, in which he is portrayed, for ...

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2025. (Kyodo) BEIJING (Kyodo) -- Videos ridiculing Japan's wartime emperor, Hirohito, have ...

Post-rock titans Godspeed You! Black Emperor have pulled their entire discography from streaming services, leaving Bandcamp as the only platform where fans can access their catalog digitally. The move ...