Tokyo woke up on Saturday, September 6 in a festive and symbolic atmosphere. The Imperial Palace in the Japanese capital was filled with solemnity to celebrate a historic event: the coming of age of ...

Prince Hisahito attends the coming-of-age ceremony at the Imperial Palace. The Kakan-no-Gi rite marks the formal entry of imperial princes into adulthood and their new responsibilities at court. The ...

YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/POOL/AFP Japan heralded on Saturday the coming-of-age of Prince Hisahito with an elaborate ceremony at the Imperial Palace, where a succession crisis is brewing. The nephew of Emperor ...

In early September a slim young man in a pale yellow robe entered a palace hall in Tokyo, trailed by a servant carrying the robe’s lengthy train. Prince Hisahito (pictured), the 19-year-old nephew of ...

Japan heralded the coming-of-age of Prince Hisahito with an elaborate ceremony at the Imperial Palace, where a succession crisis is brewing. The nephew of Emperor Naruhito, Prince Hisahito will don a ...