Emperor Hirohito appeared to be preparing for war against the United States about two months before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, according to a diary that raises further questions about his ...

After Emperor Hirohito (aka Emperor Shōwa ... Yet Hirohito did eventually confirm Japan's plan to attack Pearl Harbor. By ...

With no end in sight to the stalemate, Emperor Hirohito and senior government members decided at a meeting on Nov. 5 that Japan would go to war in early December if the negotiations were terminated.

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.

It hoped that by attacking the fleet at Pearl Harbor it could delay American ... Although the Japanese emperor, Hirohito, had approved Ketsu-Go in January, it was presented to him again on June ...