FLAGS throughout PNG were flying at half mast yesterday as the country joined others world-wide to respect the death of ...

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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 ...

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

The notes were dictated by the emperor and written down by an aide A memoir by former Japanese Emperor Hirohito about World ... by the Nazis and told Reuters news agency on Thursday that his ...

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.

But behind the gilded façade and the royal duty he was born to, Hirohito was just a man like any other, and a flawed one at that. While his reign as Japanese Emperor centered around the growing ...

After Emperor Hirohito (aka Emperor Shōwa) announced Japanese surrender to the Allies to end World War II on August 15, 1945, ...

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 ...

According to news outlet Nikkei ... just as his father, Hirohito, was posthumously named Emperor Showa.