If ever a picture was worth a thousand words, it was the image of General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito standing side by side during their historic first meeting on September 27, 1945. In it, a ...

According to a newspaper article written at the time of Hirohito's funeral, spokespeople for Japan's imperial family refused to confirm "reports" the emperor was buried with a Mickey Mouse wristwatch.

A shrouded conspiracy unfurled in the dim and flickering shadows of Emperor Hirohito’s palace. The loyal imperial guard tasked with his protection had been insidiously replaced by insurgent soldiers, ...

Seated on a dais in Tokyo's Imperial Palace, Hirohito watched silently as his ministers planned for war. Below him, civilian leaders and generals weighed their options. Then Prime Minister Hideki Tojo ...

Emperor Hirohito wanted to express remorse over the war HO / Japan's wartime emperor Hirohito wanted to express his regret and remorse shortly after World War II but the prime minister at the time ...

When Emperor Hirohito turns 86 on April 29 and solidifies his position as the world`s longest reigning monarch with 61 years on the Chrysanthemum Throne, millions of Japanese will stop to ask what has ...

TOKYO – A 12,000-page history of Emperor Hirohito released in Japan on Tuesday includes childhood letters to his parents but steps gingerly around what many want to know: his thinking on issues such ...

TOKYO – A newly released memo by a wartime Japanese official provides what a historian says is the first look at the thinking of Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on the eve of the ...

Japan`s Emperor Hirohito, the world`s longest-reigning monarch, who was once worshiped as a god but who preferred to be remembered as a marine biologist, died Saturday of intestinal cancer. Hirohito, ...

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