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The Japanese language has two words equivalent to the English word "emperor": tennō (天皇, "heavenly sovereign"), which refers exclusively to the emperor of Japan, and kōtei (皇帝), which primarily identifies non-Japanese emperors. Sumeramikoto ("the imperial person") was also used in Old Japanese.
The terms Tennō ('Emperor', 天皇), as well as Nihon ('Japan', 日本), were not adopted until the late 7th century AD. [ 6 ] [ 2 ] In the nengō system which has been in use since the late 7th century, years are numbered using the Japanese era name and the number of years which have elapsed since the start of that nengō era.
Naruhito [a] (born 23 February 1960) is Emperor of Japan.He acceded to the Chrysanthemum Throne following his father's abdication on 1 May 2019, beginning the Reiwa era. [1] He is the 126th monarch according to Japan's traditional order of succession.
Emperor Shōwa was the Emperor of the Japanese Empire during World War II. After the war ended , a new constitution was drawn up for Japan which, among other things, limited the succession to agnatic descendants of Emperor Shōwa's father, the Emperor Taishō , thus excluding cadet branches of the Imperial family.
Crown Prince Naruhito becomes Japan's 126th emperor. Home & Garden. Medicare
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito made his first speech to the nation since a deadly earthquake hit the north-central region of Koto, with a message marking his 64th birthday on Friday. Naruhito's last ...
Hirohito as an infant in 1902. Hirohito was born on 29 April 1901 at Tōgū Palace in Aoyama, Tokyo during the reign of his grandfather, Emperor Meiji, [2] the first son of 21-year-old Crown Prince Yoshihito (the future Emperor Taishō) and 16-year-old Crown Princess Sadako, the future Empress Teimei. [3]
In this photo provided by the Imperial Household Agency of Japan, Japan's Prince Hisahito speaks at his first press conference at the Imperial Palace Monday, March 3, 2025, in Tokyo.