President Harry S. Truman and his senior military and civilian advisors believed that the planned series of land invasions of ...

United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. U.S. President Harry Truman decided to use ...

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 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.

Sitting in the tiny office of the protest group in central Tokyo, Nomura said wartime emperor Hirohito was a war criminal who committed crimes against humanity during World War Two. "Hirohito had ...

Emperor Hirohito. "I have very fond memories of the queen driving a car and inviting me to a barbecue," the emperor said of a past visit to Balmoral Castle to the royal family's private retreat in ...

Japan's imperial family has had close relations with Britain's royal family for three generations starting from his grandfather, late Emperor Hirohito. Naruhito acknowledged that there had been ...

The trip aims to bolster ties between the two nations, whose royal families have enjoyed close relations for three generations, from the late Emperor Hirohito, Emperor Naruhito’s grandfather.

In the name of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, the desperate soldiers, enraged by intense Chinese resistance, stormed the then capitol of China and over a six week period systematically raped ...

In 1926, when Japanese Emperor Hirohito ascended the Imperial throne, he was revered by millions of Japanese people as a living god. Almost 100 years later, the world's oldest continuing monarchy ...

A state visit always inspires a grand level of splendour and pageantry, with tiaras donned and banquets held, lavish presents given and ceremonial parades staged. But this week, as Japan’s Emperor ...