TOKYO >> Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary just three weeks before he abdicates his throne. The couple met at a 1957 tennis tournament ...

TOKYO - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko celebrated their Diamond anniversary on Wednesday (April 10), marking six decades of a marriage that helped modernise the monarchy. Akihito ...

TOKYO --Japan's Cabinet approved Friday a bill to let 83-year-old Emperor Akihito abdicate and allow ... will lose another member with the coming marriage of Princess Mako, one of Akishino's ...

TOKYO — Emperor Akihito abdicated Japan's throne Tuesday ... Akihito and his wife, Empress Michiko — who was a commoner before their marriage in 1959 — visited disaster shelters to support ...

Their marriage in 1959 after they met playing ... to a strictly symbolic capacity with no political authority. Akihito became emperor after Hirohito’s death in 1989. Each emperor demarcates ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family prayed on Wednesday in Okinawa for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles ...

Akihito is the 125th Emperor of Japan, a direct descendant ... Agency begins compiling a list of suitable candidates for marriage. By 1958 the list has about 800 names. 1952 - Officially invested ...

"Emperor Akihito became enormously popular as he abandoned ... With only 19 current members of the royal family, marriage prospects for the women lie outside the household. The Associated Press ...

TOKYO (AP) - Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary just three weeks before he abdicates his throne. The couple met at a 1957 tennis tournament ...

Akihito was the 125th Emperor of Japan, a direct descendant ... begins compiling a list of suitable candidates for marriage. By 1958 the list has about 800 names. 1952 – Officially invested ...