Michinomiya Hirohito was born to the Japanese imperial family in Tokyo on April 29, 1901. He was the first son of Japan's ...

8 Japan time). Hirohito (1901-1989), posthumously known as Emperor Showa ... of Tokyo’s graduate schools for law and politics. They became available to the public in September.

Emperor Hirohito, 1945 ... By setting the course for Japan in these crucial postwar years, Yoshida became one of the fathers of modern Japan: his Democratic-Liberal successors would dominate ...

Emperor Hirohito, 1945 ... By setting the course for Japan in these crucial postwar years, Yoshida became one of the fathers of modern Japan: his Democratic-Liberal successors would dominate ...

However, Naruhito will not become emperor of Japan until the stroke of midnight ... which has a sensitive position given the role his father Hirohito played in the country's militaristic past.

In the recollection, Emperor Hirohito describes himself as having been in a situation where he had no choice but to agree with cabinet decisions. He says he feared that opposition to Japan's entry ...

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

shows Empress Sadako visiting Ise Jingu shrine to pray for her husband’s recovery as well as a newlywed in Kyoto who later became Emperor Hirohito. The black-and-white silent footage found at ...

Emperor Akihito's father, Japan's wartime Emperor Hirohito, did not visit Yasukuni after 14 Japanese class-A war criminals from World War Two were enshrined there in 1978. Although the emperors ...