Even the Emperor, who had always wished to ... he was planning to deliver on the thirty-first, that Hirohito could retain his throne if Japan surrendered. Harry Truman, who had been in the ...

His work once even made it onto a list of “Must-Read WN [White Nationalist] Books” – a wild ... in a beautiful death. Japan had been a land of living gods until Hirohito stepped down from the heavens ...

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 ...

The emperor does not have political power but has symbolic significance for Japan. Historically, World War II was fought in the name of Naruhito’s grandfather Hirohito. Over the decades since ...

The emperor does not have political power but has symbolic significance for Japan. Historically, World War II was fought in the name of Naruhito’s grandfather Hirohito. Over the decades since Japan’s ...

The Japan-China relationship would greatly improve if the emperor visited China next year (1992), which marks the 20th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations. (Europe is expected ...

The shocking photos show the prisoners of war reduced to skin and bone after being starved and brutally beaten by their captors until they were freed following the fall of Japan in 1945.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted New Year’s well-wishers who gathered at the Imperial ...

Historians talk of the moment in history as one in which the Meiji Emperor realized that Japan would likely be ... society into the one which Emperor Hirohito sent to war. (1868) 2,131 years ...

"I am concerned about the many people who are still living a life full of hardships," he said, noting the massive earthquake in the Noto Peninsula region of central Japan on New Year's Day in 2024 as ...