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

The notes were dictated by the emperor and written down by an aide A memoir by former Japanese Emperor Hirohito about World ... at the request of the US after WW2. The original manuscript was ...

For the Japanese people, Hirohito was a god. 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 ...

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 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 ...