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.

The latest finding reinforces the possibility that the Yamato’s one-way mission to Okinawa was abruptly hatched on April 4, 1945, as Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa ...

Emperor Hirohito's scratchy penmanship will be on show for the first time with a collection of rare handwritten “waka” poems he composed in his waning years. The special exhibition at the ...

Sitting in the tiny office of the protest group in central Tokyo, Nomura said wartime emperor Hirohito was a war criminal who committed crimes against humanity during World War Two. "Hirohito had ...

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At the end of their reigns, Japan's emperors are renamed after their eras. So Akihito can expect to be known as Emperor Heisei, just as his father, Hirohito, was posthumously named Emperor Showa.

France's late emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s hat was sold for a record price of 1.932 million euros ($2.1 million) at an auction in Paris on Sunday. The auction of the hat, which is known as a ...

The radio station is set to broadcast Emperor Hirohito reading out the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War.

Hirohito Ogi is Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Initiative and the Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG), the International House of Japan (IHJ). He served at the Ministry of Defence and Ministry ...