Hyakutake wrote in the entry that he heard Tsuneo Matsudaira, the Imperial Household minister, say after an audience with Hirohito, “The emperor appears to have been prepared for war in the face ...
But behind the gilded façade and the royal duty he was born to, Hirohito was just a man like any other, and a flawed one at that. While his reign as Japanese Emperor centered around the growing ...
If ever a picture was worth a thousand words, it was the image of General MacArthur and Emperor ... the throne, Hirohito reflected the same fascination with the West, particularly after a six ...
If ever a picture was worth a thousand words, it was the image of General MacArthur and Emperor ... the throne, Hirohito reflected the same fascination with the West, particularly after a six ...
Third film of W-TV (Without Television) shareware series. Director Tsuchiya asks visitors at Yasukuni Shrine about Emperor Hirohito's complicity in the Second World War.
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 ...
Emperor Hirohito. After the last ammunition truck and field kitchen had rumbled by. the Son of Heaven stepped down, entered a state coach and, escorted by a squadron of lancers, rolled back to the ...