Members of the Japanese Imperial Family
have been requested to be present for the state funeral of former
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to local media. A source
close to the Japanese Imperial Household Agency, which manages the
Imperial Family’s agenda and communications, has told the Mainichi
Shimbun that, once plans for the state funeral were approved,
members of the Imperial…
A panel in Japan has reunited to discuss
the issues surrounding the Imperial Family’s difficulties in
maintaining their schedule due to the ever-reducing number of
working family members. The panel also discussed potential
solutions, but, judging from the reports in…
Included amongst the works read as a
young woman by Princess Alix of Hesse, later Tsarina Alexandra
Feodorovna (1872-1918), were – according to letters that she wrote
to her eldest sister, Victoria, Princess Louis of Battenberg –
Guizot’s Reformation de la…
Record number of people turn out to hear Emperor of Japan’s last New Year message before abdicating
5th January 2019
Continuing the tradition which began on 1
January 1948, Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress opened the
gates of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo this week to receive New Year
greetings from the people of Japan. This year’s crowd was
record-breaking with 154,800 citizens turning out to see Emperor
Akihito and his family for his last New Year Greeting before his
abdication. 2018 previously held…
In March 2017, a major exhibition will be
launched in Vienna to mark the 300th birthday of one of the most
important figures in Austrian history, Empress Maria Theresia.
Commemorated in the form of a huge statue on the
Maria-Theresien-Platz in Vienna near where the so-called…
