Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko rejoiced in more than 50 years of life together at Thursday's annual palace poetry reading ceremony, an annual tradition that goes back more than 1,000 ...

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 ...

Members of the Imperial family attend the New Year’s Poetry Reading at the Imperial Palace in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo. - Pool photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun TOKYO: The annual Imperial ceremony of Utakai Hajime ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — A poem about the Japanese coastline devastated by last year's earthquake and tsunami was among the winners in the annual Imperial Palace poetry contest and was read as part of a solemn ...

With elements of both poetry and memoir, “Borderlines: An Astral Experience in Poems” by Alan Botsford, straddles the boundaries of genre. Each poem takes the form of a dramatic interior monologue ...

TOKYO (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 a ...