It did not announce the cause of death, but Japanese media ... the younger brother of Hirohito and the great-uncle of current Emperor Naruhito, months before the start of World War II.

Installed as Crown Prince at the age of fifteen, Hirohito assumed the "Chrysanthemum Throne" in 1926 with the death of his father, the Emperor Yoshihito (now known as the Taisho Emperor ...

According to a 1987 interview with Grand Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa, who served the emperor for 50 years at the Imperial Palace, Hirohito's affinity for the biological began in the sixth grade ...

Ceremonies were held at the Imperial Palace and the imperial graveyard on the outskirts of Tokyo on June 16 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death ... wife of Emperor Hirohito, who ...

His grandfather, Emperor Hirohito, was Japan’s longest-reigning monarch, and ruled during World War II. During Hirohito’s reign, Japanese forces occupied Manchuria, Korea and large parts of ...

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 ...