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

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Naruhito, the grandson of Japan's longest reigning emperor, Hirohito, has only a daughter ... The pressure on Naruhito's wife Masako also became evident, added the BBC, as she "disappeared from ...

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

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