FLAGS throughout PNG were flying at half mast yesterday as the country joined others world-wide to respect the death of ...

The memoir was first published in 1990 after the emperor's death the previous year. The degree to which Emperor Hirohito was involved in decision making during the war remains controversial among ...

Installed as Crown Prince at the age of fifteen, Hirohito assumed the "Chrysanthemum Throne" in 1926 with the death of his father, the Emperor Yoshihito (now known as the Taisho Emperor ...

It did not announce the cause of death, but Japanese media ... the younger brother of Hirohito and the great-uncle of current Emperor Naruhito, months before the start of World War II.

Following the death of his father in 1926, Hirohito became emperor of Japan. He was 25 years old. As emperor, Hirohito was ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted throngs of New Year’s well-wishers from a balcony window at the ...

Ceremonies were held at the Imperial Palace and the imperial graveyard on the outskirts of Tokyo on June 16 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death ... wife of Emperor Hirohito, who ...

The country has seen nothing like it since the death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989. Abe, the country's longest serving post-war prime minister, inspired respect rather than love. In fact ...

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 ...