After Emperor Hirohito (aka Emperor Shōwa ... By summer of 1945, Japan's allies in Italy and Germany had been beaten into ...

Emperor Hirohito appeared to be preparing ... War and its Tripartite Military Pact with Germany and Italy, which was signed in September 1940. Japan began talks with the United States in spring ...

Because his father had been a weak and sickly man, Hirohito ruled more in the shadow of his grandfather, the great Emperor Meiji , who presided over Japan's late-19th-century opening up to the West.

Because his father had been a weak and sickly man, Hirohito ruled more in the shadow of his grandfather, the great Emperor Meiji , who presided over Japan's late-19th-century opening up to the West.

That divinity was renounced by Emperor Hirohito following Japan's defeat and while the emperor was not prosecuted for war crimes he had been part of Japan's leadership during the war. So in the ...

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

The emperor, who has had heart surgery and was treated for prostate cancer, has been on the throne in Japan since the death of his father, Hirohito, in 1989. AFP/Getty Images The council met at ...

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 ...