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Japan imperial family watches Nutcracker

Japan imperial family watches Nutcracker

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (4th from R), Empress Masako (3rd from R) and their daughter Princess Aiko (2nd from R) arrive at the New National Theatre in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, to watch the Nutcracker ballet performance. (Pool photo)

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Kazakhstan's president in Tokyo

Kazakhstan's president in Tokyo

Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (back, 2nd from R) attends a luncheon hosted by Japanese Emperor Naruhito (back, R) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Kazakhstan's president in Tokyo

Kazakhstan's president in Tokyo

Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (R) prepares to attend a luncheon hosted by Japanese Emperor Naruhito (L) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Kazakhstan's president in Tokyo

Kazakhstan's president in Tokyo

Japan's Emperor Naruhito (R) meets with Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Kazakhstan's president in Tokyo

Kazakhstan's president in Tokyo

Japan's Emperor Naruhito (R) meets with Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Kazakhstan's president in Tokyo

Kazakhstan's president in Tokyo

Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (4th from R) attends a luncheon hosted by Japanese Emperor Naruhito (3rd from R) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2025, with Crown Prince Fumihito (3rd from L) also in attendance. (Pool photo)

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Kazakhstan's president in Tokyo

Kazakhstan's president in Tokyo

Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (L) is welcomed by Japan's Emperor Naruhito upon his arrival at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Empress Kojun, her great-grandmother and wife of Emperor Showa, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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CORRECTED: Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

CORRECTED: Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Empress Kojun, her great-grandmother and wife of Emperor Showa, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Nanjing Massacre memorial

Nanjing Massacre memorial

People pray in Nanjing, China, on Dec. 13, 2025, in remembrance of the victims of a 1937 massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the eastern Chinese city.

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Nanjing Massacre memorial

Nanjing Massacre memorial

Children pray in Nanjing, China, on Dec. 13, 2025, in remembrance of the victims of a 1937 massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the eastern Chinese city.

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Nanjing Massacre memorial ceremony

Nanjing Massacre memorial ceremony

A state memorial ceremony is held in Nanjing, China, on Dec. 13, 2025, to remember victims of the 1937 massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the eastern Chinese city.

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Nanjing Massacre memorial ceremony

Nanjing Massacre memorial ceremony

A state memorial ceremony is held in Nanjing, China, on Dec. 13, 2025, to remember victims of the 1937 massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the eastern Chinese city.

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Nanjing Massacre memorial ceremony

Nanjing Massacre memorial ceremony

A state memorial ceremony is held in Nanjing, China, on Dec. 13, 2025, to remember victims of the 1937 massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the eastern Chinese city.

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Nanjing Massacre memorial ceremony

Nanjing Massacre memorial ceremony

A state memorial ceremony is held in Nanjing, China, on Dec. 13, 2025, to remember victims of the 1937 massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the eastern Chinese city.

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Nanjing Massacre memorial ceremony

Nanjing Massacre memorial ceremony

A state memorial ceremony is held in Nanjing, China, on Dec. 13, 2025, to remember victims of the 1937 massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the eastern Chinese city.

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Emperor meets with disabled awardees

Emperor meets with disabled awardees

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, accompanied by Empress Masako, speaks in front of disabled people at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 12, 2025, after they received awards from the health minister for their contribution to society. (Pool photo)

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Emperor meets with disabled awardees

Emperor meets with disabled awardees

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (2nd from R) and Empress Masako meet with disabled people at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 12, 2025, after they received awards from the health minister for their contribution to society. (Pool photo)

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Emperor meets with disabled awardees

Emperor meets with disabled awardees

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (3rd from R) and Empress Masako meet with disabled people at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 12, 2025, after they received awards from the health minister for their contribution to society. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko is pictured following her visit to the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Emperor Showa, her great-grandfather, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits imperial graveyard

Japanese Princess Aiko visits the mausoleum of Empress Kojun, her great-grandmother and wife of Emperor Showa, at the Musashi imperial graveyard in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on Dec. 3, 2025, following her first official overseas trip to Laos the previous month. (Pool photo)

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Japan Emperor Naruhito

Japan Emperor Naruhito

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (4th from L on far L row) attends a luncheon with guests including the chief justice of the Supreme Court at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2025.

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Japan Emperor Naruhito

Japan Emperor Naruhito

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (C) attends a luncheon with guests including the chief justice of the Supreme Court at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2025.

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Japan Emperor Naruhito

Japan Emperor Naruhito

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (C) attends a luncheon with guests including the chief justice of the Supreme Court at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2025.

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Japan Emperor Naruhito

Japan Emperor Naruhito

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (2nd from L) attends a luncheon with guests including the chief justice of the Supreme Court at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2025.

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Tokyo Deaflympics: Japan imperial family

Tokyo Deaflympics: Japan imperial family

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (R) and their daughter Princess Aiko (far L) watch swimming competitions at the Tokyo Deaflympics at Tokyo Aquatics Centre in the capital on Nov. 25, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Tokyo Deaflympics: Japan imperial family

Tokyo Deaflympics: Japan imperial family

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (R) and their daughter Princess Aiko (far L) watch swimming competitions at the Tokyo Deaflympics at Tokyo Aquatics Centre in the capital on Nov. 25, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Tokyo Deaflympics: Japan imperial family

Tokyo Deaflympics: Japan imperial family

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (3rd from L), Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko meet Japanese swimming ace Ryutaro Ibara after watching swimming races at the Tokyo Deaflympics at Tokyo Aquatics Centre in the capital on Nov. 25, 2025. Ibara has won a career 26 medals at the Deaflympics. (Pool photo)

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Xinhua satirizes Japan PM Takaichi

Xinhua satirizes Japan PM Takaichi

Photo taken in Beijing on Nov. 20, 2025, shows the official Xinhua News Agency's post on X, satirically portraying Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi as she sees a reflection of herself wearing the uniform of the Imperial Japanese Army. Her recent remarks on Taiwan have led to a diplomatic row between the two countries.

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Xinhua satirizes Japan PM Takaichi

Xinhua satirizes Japan PM Takaichi

Photo taken in Beijing on Nov. 20, 2025, shows the official Xinhua News Agency's post on X, satirically portraying Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi as she sees a reflection of herself wearing the uniform of the Imperial Japanese Army. Her recent remarks on Taiwan have led to a diplomatic row between the two countries.

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Illustration - Fontainebleau

Illustration - Fontainebleau

FRANCE. SEINE-ET-MARNE (77). FONTAINEBLEAU. THE CASTLE. THE IMPERIAL EAGLE ON THE PILLARS OF THE COURTYARD OF THE COURT OF HONOR Photo by Jean-Francois Rollinger/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Fontainebleau

Illustration - Fontainebleau

FRANCE. SEINE-ET-MARNE (77). FONTAINEBLEAU. THE CASTLE. THE IMPERIAL EAGLE ON THE PILLARS OF THE COURTYARD OF THE FAREWELL COURT Photo by Jean-Francois Rollinger/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Fontainebleau

Illustration - Fontainebleau

FRANCE. SEINE-ET-MARNE (77). FONTAINEBLEAU. THE CASTLE. THE IMPERIAL EAGLE ON THE PILLARS OF THE COURTYARD OF THE FAREWELL COURT Photo by Jean-Francois Rollinger/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Fontainebleau

Illustration - Fontainebleau

FRANCE. SEINE-ET-MARNE (77). FONTAINEBLEAU. THE CASTLE. THE IMPERIAL THEATER Photo by Jean-Francois Rollinger/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Feb. 1936 military revolt in Tokyo

Feb. 1936 military revolt in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 14 Kyodo - A group of young Imperial Japanese Army officers enter the Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 27, 1936, in an attempt to seize control of key locations, including the prime minister's residence, in the so-called 2.26 incident that started in the early morning of Feb. 26. The coup, conducted by a faction of officers within the Army who were dissatisfied with the government's perceived weakness and corruption, ended in failure.

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1st anniversary of Princess Yuriko's death

1st anniversary of Princess Yuriko's death

Japanese Prince Hisahito is seen on his way to offer prayers for the late Princess Yuriko at the Toshimagoka Cemetery for the imperial family in Tokyo on Nov. 15, 2025, in a ceremony marking the first anniversary of her death. (Pool photo)

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1st anniversary of Princess Yuriko's death

1st anniversary of Princess Yuriko's death

Japanese Princess Akiko prepares to offer prayers for her grandmother, the late Princess Yuriko, at Toshimagoka Cemetery for the imperial family in Tokyo on Nov. 15, 2025, in a ceremony marking the first anniversary of her death. (Pool photo)

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1st anniversary of Princess Yuriko's death

1st anniversary of Princess Yuriko's death

Japanese Princess Kako (foreground) and her brother, Prince Hisahito, are seen on their way to offer prayers for the late Princess Yuriko at Toshimagoka Cemetery for the imperial family in Tokyo on Nov. 15, 2025, in a ceremony marking the first anniversary of her death. (Pool photo)

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1st anniversary of Princess Yuriko's death

1st anniversary of Princess Yuriko's death

Japanese Princess Kako (foreground) and her brother, Prince Hisahito, are seen on their way to offer prayers for the late Princess Yuriko at Toshimagoka Cemetery for the imperial family in Tokyo on Nov. 15, 2025, in a ceremony marking the first anniversary of her death. (Pool photo)

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1st anniversary of Princess Yuriko's death

1st anniversary of Princess Yuriko's death

Japanese Princess Akiko (foreground) and her sister, Princess Yoko, are seen on their way to offer prayers for their grandmother, the late Princess Yuriko, at Toshimagoka Cemetery for the imperial family in Tokyo on Nov. 15, 2025, in a ceremony marking the first anniversary of her death. (Pool photo)

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1st anniversary of Princess Yuriko's death

1st anniversary of Princess Yuriko's death

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko are seen on their way to offer prayers for the late Princess Yuriko at Toshimagoka Cemetery for the imperial family in Tokyo on Nov. 15, 2025, in a ceremony marking the first anniversary of her death. (Pool photo)

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Japan imperial family

Japan imperial family

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike (far L) talks to Japan's Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Aiko (far R) on Oct. 23, 2025, at the Tokyo metropolitan memorial hall, which honors the estimated 100,000 people killed during U.S. air raids on the capital on the night of March 10, 1945, toward the end of World War II. (Pool photo)

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Imperial conferment of decorations

Imperial conferment of decorations

Taku Yamamoto (front), a former House of Representatives lawmaker, heads to a conferment ceremony to receive the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2025. The honoree, whose real surname is Takaichi, is the husband of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

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Imperial conferment of decorations

Imperial conferment of decorations

Taku Yamamoto (3rd from L), a former House of Representatives lawmaker, is conferred the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun from Japan's Emperor Naruhito during a ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2025. The honoree, whose real surname is Takaichi, is the husband of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (2nd from L). (Pool photo)

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