TOKYO -- Ensuring stable Imperial succession is an urgent task for the government as the number of Imperial heirs decreased from four to three after Emperor Naruhito ascended to the Imperial Throne on ...

Oxford University in the UK has now decided to educate its students on the basis of the Imperial system of measurement. As you know there are two systems in use today. One is the Imperial and the ...

A report on the direction of future discussions, compiled last month by a government panel of experts on imperial succession, revealed the difficulty of maintaining a national system by relying on ...

Recently I heard a news item on TV that the European Union has agreed to allow the United Kingdom to keep the imperial system of measurement (foot, pound) in parallel with the metric system (meter, ...

Shops in Britain may soon be allowed to sell their products in pounds and ounces as the imperial measurement system is set to be revived in the UK. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce ...

Brexit minister Lord Frost announced on Thursday that the ban on making imperial measurements in shops “stand out more” than metric units could soon be lifted, as the government is looking to unpick ...

Now that the United Kingdom is outside the European Union, it’s reviewing thousands of EU rules and regulations to see which it should jettison. Among them is the compulsory use of the metric system ...

As a Hackaday writer, you can never predict where the comments of your posts will go. Some posts seem to be ignored, while others have a good steady stream of useful feedback. But sometimes the ...

Blame it on timing. When James Watt gave the term horsepower an exact-ish definition in the 1780s, he actually borrowed the math behind it from one of Isaac Newton's assistants. It was John ...

As a Hackaday writer, you can never predict where the comments of your posts will go. Some posts seem to be ignored, while others have a good steady stream of useful feedback. But sometimes the ...