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The rescript was published today, Feb. 21, following an audience that Pope Francis granted on Feb. 20 to Cardinal Arthur Roche, the prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Just as he put the finishing touches on the Republican convention, McCain campaign adviser Fred Davis suddenly had to rip up his entire playbook for a last-minute addition to ...

The Imperial Rescript on Education, which was issued by Emperor Meiji in 1890, was rejected in postwar Japan. Nevertheless, moves to cling to it and defend it as entailing universal values show no ...

In the palace itself, the imperial stenographer was putting the finishing brushstrokes on the Imperial Rescript on Surrender. The emperor’s seal was fixed to the document, making it official.

Called the Imperial Rescript on Education, the text was once ubiquitous in Japanese schools. Schoolchildren used to recite it while kneeling in front of an image of Emperor Meiji, who made the order.

Kyoiku Chokugo, or the Imperial Rescript on Education, was eliminated and revoked by the Diet in June 1948 as being incompatible with the basic principle of the Japanese Constitution. Therefore ...

HIROSHIMA--Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui cited a part of the prewar Imperial Rescript on Education stressing loyalty to the emperor in training materials for new city employees, The Asahi Shimbun ...