In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...

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 ...

On August 15th Emperor Hirohito at last admitted defeat ... A nation that “had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps”, Sebald wrote, “could hardly call on the ...

March 28, 1885 was an important day in the life of the region that, more than seven decades later, would become the Gold ...

This series of documentaries, featuring films made from the 1970s to the present, focuses on the most intimate acts by filmmakers and documentary subjects as they probe into extremely private ...

Was Hirohito really as passive as history has painted him? Emperor Hirohito stood at the head of Japan’s war machine, yet after 1945, both the Japanese and the Americans painted him as a ...

They would be used in the pivotal scene in which Darth Vader (James Earl Jones) communicates with the emperor (as a holographic projection). Revill’s voice would be replaced on the 2004 DVD ...