In 1924, he married princess Nagako Kuni, with whom he would eventually have seven children. Following the death of his ...

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.

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 ...

Born Yuriko Takagi to an aristocratic family on June 4, 1923, the princess was 18 when she married the younger brother of wartime emperor Hirohito. The couple had five children -- two girls and ...

Another part of the video shows children likely from a local girls ... The other video piece shows Crown Prince Hirohito and Crown Princess Nagako (1903-2000) visiting the Fushimi-Momoyama ...

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 ...