Japanese Emperor Akihito's cardiac bypass surgery was safely completed after nearly five hours in the operating room of the University of Tokyo Hospital, Japanese national broadcaster NHK said Saturday.
Japan's 77-year-old emperor was hospitalized on Sunday, several days after coming down with a fever, a spokesperson with the Imperial Household Agency said.
Japan's 77-year-old emperor is currently in hospital, several days after coming down with a fever, a spokesperson with the Imperial Household Agency says.
ITN's Alex Thomson reports on the destruction residents of Kamaishi, Japan, are facing after the earthquake and tsunami.
A "deeply worried" Emperor Akihito speaks of the nuclear crisis following the earthquake and tsunami
Britain's Prince Charles and his wife are greeted by Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko.
A naked man has a showdown with police as he swims in a moat around the Imperial Place in Japan.
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Japan Inc.'s record nonstop economic growth -- the Heisei boom, named for the era of current Emperor Akihito and dating from December 1986 -- may be over. Industrial production is down 4% from last...
Despite a slowdown in its economy, Japan may soon report an uninterrupted 58 months of expansion. That would shatter the 57-month record it set from 1965 to 1970. Japan's Economic Planning Agency, ...