But that never happened. Instead, General Hideki Tojo and 27 Imperial military officers and Japanese officials were charged, ...

Seven hundred B-29s fly over Japan, dropping more than 4,000 tons of explosives on military targets. Emperor Hirohito calls an Imperial Conference. A military faction wants to fight to the death ...

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 ...

In between, however, he presided over one of the largest and most costly military ventures in human history. In the decades after the war, the accepted version of events held that Hirohito was ...

“The archives available so far, including his biography compiled by the Imperial Household ... entries describing political and military affairs surrounding Hirohito. Many scholars viewed ...

Last year, when Prince Regent Hirohito opened the Imperial Diet ... Reformation of House of Peers. 2) Compulsory military education. 3) Universal manhood suffrage. Contact us at [email protected] ...

The greatest New Year’s honor that can befall a Japanese is to have his poem recited to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito. Less than ten poems are recited. All must be on the same ...

The Imperial Japanese Army started constructing an enormous bunker ... of “The National Polity” (Kokutai). When Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989), posthumously known as Emperor Showa, visited ...