Japan's Emperor Naruhito waves with Empress Masako to well-wishers from the balcony during a public appearance for New Year's Day with his imperial families at Imperial Palace, Thursday, Jan. 2 ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about how the Japanese Emperor spends the first days of the New Year. Question: There was a New Year's greeting event at the ...

When the emperor converted to Christianity, many of the holidays common to Roman society received a makeover. A prisoner named "Valentine" was said in one tale to have written a note signed "from ...

the emperor Antoninus Pius. Just an hour away from central Rome, in the foothills, was a villa where he used to spend his holidays. And it’s from letters sent to his tutor, from this rural ...