Japan’s Supreme Court rendered judgment in January on a suit that was initially brought by 27 Korean plaintiffs in 2013. The ...

The imperial family, like so many families, has its fair share of problems. But in this case, its very survival in its ...

As conservatives urge Shigeru Ishiba to follow the late Shinzo Abe’s lead, moderates warn against alienating Japan’s ...

It was launched in November 1928 to celebrate the ascension of the country’s 124th Emperor, Hirohito. Today, the broadcast is followed by workers, schoolchildren and elderly people hoping to ...

Games Workshop has unveiled the new range of Warhammer 40,000 models for the refreshed Emperor’s Children army, as part of its Las Vegas Open preview stream on Thursday. These latest reveals include ...

and to come to terms with Emperor Hirohito’s abdication of divine authority. These themes come to the fore in the title story of a new English collection of Mishima’s stories, Voices of the ...

Or so he put it in “Voices of the Fallen Heroes”, a spooky 1966 short story in which ghosts at a séance ventriloquise his preoccupations with national and cultural decline after Emperor Hirohito ...

G. S. Ratnaweera. Lenin was initially named ‘Hirohito,’ apparently because my grandfather admired the Japanese emperor. I have been unable to verify claims that he was among the first to use a ...