According to a newspaper article written at the time of Hirohito's funeral, spokespeople for Japan's imperial family refused to confirm "reports" the emperor was buried with a Mickey Mouse wristwatch.

In this July 26, 2018, photo, Takeo Hatano, a used bookstore owner, shows the five-page "Yuzawa memo," written by Michio Yuzawa, interior vice minister in 194, in Tokyo. The newly released memo by a ...

Emperor Hirohito should be held accountable, according to scholars who say the wartime ruler was shielded from prosecution by ...

Emperor Hirohito wanted to express remorse over the war HO / Japan's wartime emperor Hirohito wanted to express his regret and remorse shortly after World War II but the prime minister at the time ...

The 4 1/2-minute speech that has reverberated throughout Japan's modern history since it was delivered by Emperor Hirohito at the end of World War II has come back to life in digital form. Hirohito's ...

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. In it, a ...

TOKYO – A 12,000-page history of Emperor Hirohito released in Japan on Tuesday includes childhood letters to his parents but steps gingerly around what many want to know: his thinking on issues such ...

TOKYO — The 4 1/2-minute speech that has reverberated throughout Japan’s modern history since it was delivered by Emperor Hirohito at the end of World War II has come back to life in digital form.

A 61-volume biography of the late Japanese Emperor Hirohito depicts him as being critical of plans to attack the United States in 1941, and describes him as convinced that Imperial Japan had no chance ...

TOKYO – A newly released memo by a wartime Japanese official provides what a historian says is the first look at the thinking of Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on the eve of the ...