Hideki Tojo was a general in the Imperial Japanese ... Tojo lost the support of Japan's Emperor Hirohito in 1944 as the war turned against Japan and he was forced to resign. After the country's ...

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

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.

Emperor Akihito's father, Japan's wartime Emperor Hirohito, did not visit Yasukuni after 14 Japanese class-A war criminals from World War Two were enshrined there in 1978. Although the emperors ...

In 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War ... In 1990, Akihito was installed as the 125th emperor of Japan. In 1997, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef ...