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.

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 ...

The emperor has said it’s part of his effort at atonement and remembrance of the tragedy of war fought in the name of his ...