Japanese Emperor Naruhito expressed his hope for peace in Japan and the world in the new year in a poem recited at the annual ...

Prince Hisahito on Wednesday attended for the first time Japan's imperial New Year's poetry ceremony, known as " utakai ...

TOKYO: The annual Imperial ceremony of Utakai Hajime, or the New Year's Poetry Reading, was held at the Imperial Palace in ...

Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and other members of the imperial family held their annual poetry event where they presented ...

Each poem takes the form of a dramatic interior monologue from an imagined viewpoint — a colleague, student, stranger or ...

Each year, the Japanese Imperial family hosts an annual celebration of poetry at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. This year, as they have in years previous, Emperor Nahrutio, Empress Masako, and Princess ...

TOKYO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Poetry in the loo can cut down on paper use too, says a Japanese group campaigning to save toilet paper as part of the country's battle against global warming. Simply pasting ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. A Japanese painting on view at the New Orleans ...