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Crown prince at biotope contest

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (2nd from L) and his son Prince Hisahito (2nd from R) attend a national school biotope contest at the Tokyo National Museum in the capital on Feb. 8, 2026. (Pool photo)

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Crown prince at biotope contest

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito speaks at a national school biotope contest at the Tokyo National Museum in the capital on Feb. 8, 2026. (Pool photo)

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Crown prince at biotope contest

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito speaks at a national school biotope contest at the Tokyo National Museum in the capital on Feb. 8, 2026. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits photo exhibition

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (3rd from R), Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko visit the National Showa Memorial Museum in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2025, for a special photo exhibition depicting people's life in Tokyo during World War II. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits photo exhibition

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko visit the National Showa Memorial Museum in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2025, for a special photo exhibition depicting people's life in Tokyo during World War II. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits photo exhibition

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko visit the National Showa Memorial Museum in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2025, for a special photo exhibition depicting people's life in Tokyo during World War II. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits photo exhibition

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (3rd from R), Empress Masako (2nd from R) and their daughter Princess Aiko (far R) visit the National Showa Memorial Museum in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2025, for a special photo exhibition depicting people's life in Tokyo during World War II. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits photo exhibition

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko visit the National Showa Memorial Museum in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2025, for a special photo exhibition depicting people's life in Tokyo during World War II. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits photo exhibition

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko visit the National Showa Memorial Museum in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2025, for a special photo exhibition depicting people's life in Tokyo during World War II. (Pool photo)

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Exterior and signboard of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Exterior and signboard of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo=August 23,2025,Tokyo

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Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art signboard

Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art signboard=August 23,2025,Tokyo

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Saori Minami

Saori Minami=Date: November 2, 1971, Place: Japan

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Ken Takakura

Ken Takakura on the set of the movie “Abashiri Prison”=Date : December 10, 1971, Place : Sounkyo, Hokkaido

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Tomisaburo Wakayama

Tomisaburo Wakayama=Place: Akasaka, Japan

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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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Japan crown prince at award ceremony

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito speaks during an award ceremony for the Japan Water Prize at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo on July 8, 2025.

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Japan crown prince at award ceremony

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito speaks during an award ceremony for the Japan Water Prize at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo on July 8, 2025.

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Japan crown prince at award ceremony

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito speaks during an award ceremony for the Japan Water Prize at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo on July 8, 2025.

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Territory museum reopens in Tokyo

Photo taken on April 17, 2025, shows the interior of an immersive theater at the National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty in Tokyo on the eve of its reopening following content renewal.

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Territory museum reopens in Tokyo

Manabu Sakai, Japanese minister in charge of territorial issues, speaks on April 18, 2025, during a ceremony in Tokyo marking the reopening of the National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty following content renewal.

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Baseball: Perfect game ball to be displayed at U.S. Hall of Fame museum

Photo taken on March 16, 2025, at Tokyo Dome in the Japanese capital shows the ball then Lotte Marines pitcher Roki Sasaki threw when he achieved a perfect game against the Orix Buffaloes on April 10, 2022. The ball will be displayed at the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, during a special exhibition themed on transpacific baseball exchanges starting in July 2025. (Pool photo)

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Imperial family visits art exhibition in Tokyo

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (2nd from R) and their daughter Princess Aiko visit an exhibition of traditional Japanese art at Tokyo National Museum in the Japanese capital on Feb. 6, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Imperial family visits art exhibition in Tokyo

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (C) and their daughter Princess Aiko visit an exhibition of traditional Japanese art at Tokyo National Museum in the Japanese capital on Feb. 6, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japanese imperial family at museum

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (2nd from L), Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko visit an exhibition titled "Monet: The Late Waterscapes" at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo on Jan. 27, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japanese imperial family at museum

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko visit an exhibition titled "Monet: The Late Waterscapes" at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo on Jan. 27, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan crown prince at award ceremony

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (L) speaks with award winners of the Japan Stockholm Junior Water Prize at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo on June 18, 2024.

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Japan crown prince at award ceremony

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (R) attends an award ceremony for the Japan Water Prize at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo on June 18, 2024.

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Japan crown prince at award ceremony

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito attends an award ceremony for the Japan Water Prize at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo on June 18, 2024.

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Hall of Fame museum in N.Y. to display collections themed on Japan-U.S. baseball exchanges

(from L) Josh Rawitch, president of the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel and Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese national to become a Major League Baseball player, attend a press conference at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Tokyo on April 18, 2024. Rawitch said a jersey (L) of the Los Angeles Dodgers' two-way star Shohei Ohtani will be on display during a special exhibition themed on transpacific baseball exchanges starting at the museum in Cooperstown, New York, in July 2025.

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Japanese emperor's family at museum

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko view an exhibition titled "Yamato-e: Traditions of Beauty from the Imperial Court" at the Tokyo National Museum in the Japanese capital on Nov. 21, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Japanese emperor's family at museum

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko view an exhibition titled "Yamato-e: Traditions of Beauty from the Imperial Court" at the Tokyo National Museum in the Japanese capital on Nov. 21, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Japan emperor, empress

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko visit the "Gaudi and the Sagrada Familia" exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo on Aug. 16, 2023.

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Ex-Japan emperor, empress

Former Japanese Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko visit the "Gaudi and the Sagrada Familia" exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo on Aug. 16, 2023.

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Sister park arrangement between Japan and U.S.

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel pose at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on June 29, 2023, after signing a sister park affiliation pact between the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the Pearl Harbor National Museum.

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Sister park arrangement between Japan and U.S.

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel pose at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on June 29, 2023, after signing a sister park affiliation pact between the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the Pearl Harbor National Museum.

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Japan crown prince, crown princess at Ancient Mexico exhibition

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko visit an exhibition on Ancient Mexican civilizations at Tokyo National Museum on June 15, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Japan crown prince, crown princess at Ancient Mexico exhibition

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko visit an exhibition on Ancient Mexican civilizations at Tokyo National Museum on June 15, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Japan crown prince at award ceremony

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito speaks during an award ceremony for the Japan Water Prize at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo on June 13, 2023.

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Japan crown prince at award ceremony

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito speaks during an award ceremony for the Japan Water Prize at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo on June 13, 2023.

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Japan Crown Prince at student science contest

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito talks with students at an award ceremony for the Japan Students Science Awards on Dec. 24, 2022, at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo. (Pool photo)

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Exhibition of Chinese artifacts loaned from Taiwan opens in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken June 23, 2014, at the Tokyo National Museum in Tokyo's Taito Ward shows a cabbage carved from jadeite dating from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) on loan from Taiwan's National Palace Museum.

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Exhibition of Chinese artifacts loaned from Taiwan opens in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A tape-cutting ceremony is held at the Tokyo National Museum in Tokyo's Taito Ward on June 23, 2014, for an exhibition of ancient Chinese artifacts on loan from Taiwan. Feng Ming-chu, director of Taiwan's National Palace Museum, can be seen second from right.

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Historical artifacts loaned from Taiwan on display as planned

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese and Taiwanese media members wait for the start of a private viewing for an exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum in Tokyo of historical Chinese artifacts on loan from Taiwan's National Palace Museum on June 23, 2014, following the Japanese side's apology for having omitted the word "National" on posters and other materials and the reinstatement of the official name.

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Young Prince Hisahito visits museum

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prince Hisahito (C) points while viewing an animal exhibition with his father Prince Akishino (L) and mother Princess Kiko (R) at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo on Aug. 17, 2010. (Pool Photo)

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Young Prince Hisahito visits museum

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prince Hisahito (C) smiles while visiting an animal exhibition with his father Prince Akishino (L) and his mother Princess Kiko (back) at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo on Aug. 17, 2010. (Pool Photo)

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Emperor, empress visit National Museum of Japanese History

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visit the National Museum of Japanese History in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture on Aug. 22 to view a special exhibition of artifacts from the Yayoi Period. (Pool photo)

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Le Corbusier-designed Tokyo museum to be on World Heritage list

TOKYO, Japan, July 17 Kyodo - File photo taken in June 2009 shows the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo's Ueno Park, one of 17 buildings in seven countries designed by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier that the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided on July 17, 2016 to add to the World Heritage list.

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Emperor Hirohito's marine specimens return from Belgium

TOKYO, Japan - The specimens of hydrozoa, a small marine organism, collected by the late Japanese Emperor Hirohito are shown at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2014, after being kept in Belgium for about 80 years.

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Imperial couple visit Japanese painter's exhibition

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attend an exhibition of Japanese-style painter Shunso Hishida commemorating the 140th anniversary of his birth at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Last survivor of 12-member Enola Gay bomber crew dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in April 2010 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum near Washington, the United States, shows the Enola Gay, the U.S. bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. Theodore Van Kirk, the last survivor of the 12-member crew of the B-29 Superfortress has died at the age of 93.