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The Emperor of Japan, Naruhito, has become the honorary patron of next year's Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. He has accepted the position following a formal request by the Organising ...

It is his first speech at the beginning of the year. The monarch greeted his subjects five times: three in the morning and two in the afternoon. About 68 thousand Japanese listened to his words. The ...

Japan's Emperor Akihito will not open the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after announcing that he will abdicate on April 30, 2019. The date was announced after a meeting today of the Japanese Imperial ...

Emperor Naruhito and his family waved to throngs of New Year’s well-wishers from the balcony at the Imperial Palace on Monday in the return of a celebration halted for the past two years by the ...

The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) has announced that Emperor Naruhito of Japan has graciously accepted the role of Honorary Patron of the Tokyo 2020 ...