Every August, Japanese media outlets offer specials on World War II and accounts of survivors’ wartime experiences. These features center around Aug. 15, the date when Emperor Hirohito announced ...

Here’s a look at the life of Emperor Naruhito of Japan, the 126th Emperor to ascend to Japan’s Chrysanthemum Throne. Personal Birth date: February 23, 1960 Birth place: Tokyo, Japan Previous name: ...

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

Born in 1923 as an aristocrat, Yuriko married at age 18 to Prince Mikasa, the younger brother of Hirohito and the great-uncle of current Emperor Naruhito, months before the start of World War II.

2016), she spoke about her perspective on the ending of World War II. The Princess gave the 11 ... Prince Mikasa -- the younger brother of then Emperor Hirohito (posthumously known as Emperor ...

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

He might have been right; an even more culpable crowned head than Wilhelm II, Hirohito, stayed over 40 ... of central Europe that bred the Second World War was partly their fault, as no day ...

Dec. 7, 1941 – that the Japanese attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Although America learned of the attack via radio ...

When I was a boy growing up in China in the years after the Second World War ... with equal conviction, that Hirohito had been a pacifist pawn, manipulated by right–wing and militarist factions in pre ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship ...

when Japan formally surrendered to the Allies and ended the horrors of World War II. Eight decades later, “Hold Strong,” a ...