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

As conservatives urge Shigeru Ishiba to follow the late Shinzo Abe’s lead, moderates warn against alienating Japan’s ...

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 ...

If ever a picture was worth a thousand words, it was the image of General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito standing side by side during their historic first meeting on September 27, 1945.

Empress Sadako (1884-1951), posthumously known as Empress Teimei, visited Ise Jingu shrine on Nov. 5, 1922, to pray for the recovery of her husband, Emperor ... after World War II, ordered the ...

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 ...

June 19, 1944 Japan's counterattack results in the greatest carrier battle of World War II. U.S. forces shoot down ... January 20, 1945 The Japanese emperor, Hirohito, approves Ketsu-Go - the ...

Born Yuriko Takagi to an aristocratic family on June 4, 1923, the princess was 18 when she married the younger brother of wartime emperor Hirohito ... in 1944 during World War II.

Addressing the U.S. Congress on Hirohito’s birthday is an insult to Pacific War veterans.