Japan's Empress Masako is only the second commoner ... but now seems to be getting a chance to put her extensive diplomacy skills to use. China is encouraging it's retirees to spend their savings ...

True, she had been the de facto ruler of China since 1881 ... learned photography in Japan and France. He began making a series of glass-plate negative portraits. The empress dowager probably ...

He is likened to Empress Dowager Cixi, who in 1900 effectively declared war on the Western powers in China, a disastrous move that helped accelerate the collapse of imperial China To many Chinese ...

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

Japan's Empress Masako is only the second commoner ... first time robots have raced alongside humans over such a distance. China is encouraging it's retirees to spend their savings on fun ...