Monarchs of Japan

7 monarchs and royal houses of Japan, listed alphabetically with title and reign.

Heisei emperor, who with Empress Michiko brought the throne close to the people, comforting disaster victims and marrying the...

The legendary first emperor, said to descend from the sun goddess Amaterasu and to have founded the throne in 660 BC. Historians...

Mutsuhito, the teenage emperor whose 1868 restoration ended 260 years of shogun rule. Under the Meiji slogan of a rich country...

A historian who wrote his Oxford thesis on navigation and traffic on the upper Thames in the 18th century, he became the 126th...

Hirohito, whose 62 year reign spanned the war in China, the Pacific war, defeat, occupation and the transformation into a...

The first of eight women to reign as Japanese empress. She took the throne after factional strife, with Prince Shotoku as regent...

The imperial house of Japan, called the oldest continuous hereditary monarchy on earth, with a legendary founding by Jimmu in 660...