Japan's monarchy will soon enter the social media space with a new Instagram account, in a move seen as giving the Imperial Household Agency control over its narratives following the online woes ...

The move comes some 15 years after Britain's royals first made their social media debuts. "The [Japanese] were perhaps the last notable royal family not to fully engage the digital era," notes ...

However, she will no longer formally be a member of the Japanese imperial family. In Japan, female royals are forced to give up their title if they marry a ‘commoner’: male royals are ...

Following lunch at Buckingham Palace, the royals will view a special exhibition in the Picture Gallery of items from the Royal Collection relating to Japan before they visit Westminster Abbey ...