As the Year of the Snake approaches, international students in Shanghai from all over the world have embraced "snakes" in Chinese poetry. Through poetic recitation, they are celebrating the arrival of ...

Emperor Naruhito once again wished for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic in his poem for the annual New Year Poetry Reading at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Also just like last year, all ...

Emperor Naruhito composed a poem unrelated to COVID-19 for the first time since the pandemic began at the New Year Poetry Reading at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 19. Naruhito has visited ...