Hirohito's ability to thwart the militarists ... as the "Reverse Course" in American occupation policy had begun to favor the old industrial and bureaucratic elites, who offered the quickest ...

Radio Taiso, which literally means ‘radio calisthenics’, was widely adopted in Japan in 1928 shortly after the enthronement ...

According to a 1987 interview with Grand Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa, who served the emperor for 50 years at the Imperial Palace, Hirohito's affinity for the biological began in the sixth grade ...

Was Hirohito really as passive as history has painted him? Emperor Hirohito stood at the head of Japan’s war machine, yet after 1945, both the Japanese and the Americans painted him as a ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki each had an Atomic bomb dropped on them, forcing the formal Japanese surrender on 15th August announced by Emperor Hirohito, and two weeks later, on September 2nd ...

In 1921, Crown Prince Hirohito, soon to be emperor ... the first returning G.I. to bring karate to the United States was a 21-year-old middleweight boxing champion named Robert Trias, who had ...

Emperor Hirohito appeared to be preparing for war against the United States about two months before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, according to a diary that raises further questions about his ...