Every August, Japanese media outlets offer specials on World War II and accounts of survivors’ wartime experiences. These features center around Aug. 15, the date when Emperor Hirohito announced ...

World War II ended 75 years ago ... 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9, Japanese Emperor Hirohito broadcast a surrender message to his people on the radio. The broadcast came one day after Japan told ...

April 1, 2019 – The Japanese government announces that Naruhito’s reign will be known as the “Reiwa” era. The era, whose name includes the character for “harmony,” will formally begin once the new ...

If ever a picture was worth a thousand words, it was the image of General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito ... Japan had lost 2.3 million soldiers and 800,000 civilians in the war -- in the ...

Japan’s Emperor Showa pushed to be able to express his regret over World War II despite opposition from ... The Emperor, also known by his given name Hirohito, particularly wanted to speak ...

Born in 1923 as an aristocrat, Yuriko married at age 18 to Prince Mikasa, the younger brother of Hirohito and the great-uncle of current Emperor Naruhito, months before the start of World War II.

Providing a new perspective on Japanese tactics during the Asia-Pacific War drawn from first-hand source material, the story of Japan’s Holy War against the West during the Second World War.