Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has started a weeklong visit to Mongolia that will honor Japanese World War II prisoners ...

Hirohito “is the spiritual godfather of uninterrupted, one-party LDP rule,” Bix said in an interview. From the early 1960s, Hirohito received secret top-level military briefings, ...

A shrouded conspiracy unfurled in the dim and flickering shadows of Emperor Hirohito’s palace. The loyal imperial guard tasked with his protection had been insidiously replaced by insurgent soldiers, ...

Tokyo — Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito's brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has died after her health deteriorated recently, palace officials said.

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has announced plans to honor Japanese World War II prisoners during his visit to Mongolia next week ...

An earlier source for the claim Hirohito was buried with a Mickey Mouse watch is an article about the emperor's funeral written in February 1989 by Stewart Slavin, a reporter for newswire agency ...

In a Memoir, Hirohito Talks of Pearl Harbor. Just as the Government completes the enthronement of a new Emperor untainted by links to Japan's militaristic past, a popular magazine has published a ...