The United States was about 75 years old; Japan's state could be traced back unbroken over 2,500 years to 660 B.C. when, as history and mythology held, the first emperor, Jimmu Tenno, sat on the ...

The Japanese Kingdom was founded in 660 BCE under Emperor Jimmu, making it the oldest monarchy in the world. The current emperor is Naruhito, who acceded to the throne after his father Emperor ...

The presentation included an explanation that more than 2,600 years have passed since the "enthronement" of the nation's first emperor, Jimmu, whose existence is uncertain. The organizer also ...

Traditionally, emperors were seen as descended from Shinto gods. The first emperor was Emperor Jimmu, who is said to have begun his reign and built an empire around 660 BC. According to Japanese ...

Plus there’s similarities to the Kojiki, an ancient Japanese tale where Emperor Jimmu murders all his political rivals at a feast. History can be brutal. Khal Drogo, one of the most prominent ...

Japan's monarchy is the only one in the world to have a bloodline with the first emperor that has historical evidence.. Emperor Jimmu? Believe that and I will show you his grave in Nara prefecture, ...

Even though it has pretty much gone out of style today, "Jimmu konokata" (literally, "since Emperor Jimmu") is probably the most hyperbolic expression ever coined in Japanese. When the Japanese ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China into the afterlife, according to archaeologists. Ying Zheng took the throne ...

From the mythical ascension of the first Emperor, Jimmu, to the 126th Emperor, Naruhito, who currently sits on the Chrysanthemum throne, the Yamato dynasty is the oldest continuous hereditary ...

The face of a Chinese emperor who ruled 1,500 years ago has been reconstructed using ancient DNA. Chinese scientists ...

Scientists have seen a drop of almost 10% in emperor penguin populations in just under a decade. A new study from a group of international scientists used very high resolution satellite imagery ...

Nothing gets in the way of a baby emperor penguin getting into the water, not even a huge ice cliff. The courage some chicks have in the face of adversity is truly unmatched, serving them well ...