After Emperor Hirohito (aka Emperor Shōwa) announced Japanese surrender to the Allies to end World War II on August 15, 1945, ...

An image of Emperor Hirohito was removed from a pro-Ukraine, anti-fascism video uploaded on Twitter after the Japanese government lodged a complaint to the Ukrainian Embassy in Tokyo. The Twitter ...

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 ...

For millions of Japanese, it brought home in an entirely new way the notion that they had lost the war. Emperor Hirohito, 1945. Library of Congress. The man known as Tenno to his subjects and ...

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 ...

For millions of Japanese, it brought home in an entirely new way the notion that they had lost the war. Emperor Hirohito, 1945. Library of Congress. The man known as Tenno to his subjects and ...

Emperor Hirohito stepped to the front of a white platform and waved a languid New Year’s blessing to the crowd. Eight times the park emptied and filled, bringing 174,000 Japanese into the royal ...

Naruhito, the grandson of Japan's longest reigning emperor, Hirohito, has only a daughter with Empress Masako: 22-year-old Aiko, Princess Toshi. According to a Kyodo News poll published this week ...

TOKYO: Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has died after her health deteriorated recently, palace officials said.

In 1926, when Japanese Emperor Hirohito ascended the Imperial throne, he was revered by millions of Japanese people as a living god. Almost 100 years later, the world's oldest continuing monarchy ...