Gov. Yuriko Koike on Dec. 3 announced plans to introduce a system that would give metropolitan government workers the option ...

PM Shigeru Ishiba has called Japan ’s stubbornly low birth rate a ‘quiet emergency and has pledged policies like flexible ...

Tokyo's governor wants to introduce a four-day workweek for government personnel in the Japanese capital as part of a ...

The Governor of Tokyo, the Japan's capital, Yuriko Koike has unveiled plan to introduce a four-day workweek for government ...

At the tomb, Emperor Naruhito offered a tamagushi ritual offering and bowed deeply, as did Empress Masako after him.

The main funeral ceremony for Princess Yuriko, the oldest member of the Japanese imperial family and great-aunt of Emperor ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Princess Yuriko of Japan, who was the oldest member of the Japanese Imperial Family, has died at 101 years old. Princess Yuriko — the wife of Emperor Hirohito’s ...

Her death reduces Japan’s rapidly dwindling imperial family to 16 people, and only 4 men, as the country faces questions ...

Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has ...

The princess had been hospitalized since early March due to a stroke and pneumonia. She died of natural causes on Nov. 15 at ...

Tokyo — Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito's brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has died after her health deteriorated recently, palace officials said.