April 1, 2019 – The Japanese government announces that Naruhito’s reign will be known as the “Reiwa” era. The era, whose name includes the character for “harmony,” will formally begin once the new ...

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 ...

During World War II, Force 136 agents fought bravely to defend their homeland. This is the story of one of them.

Japan has an average life expectancy of 81 ... November 1928 to celebrate the ascension of the country’s 124th Emperor, Hirohito. Today, the broadcast is followed by workers, schoolchildren ...

No matter how many times it is vanquished or decisively discredited, ‘Palestinianism’ persists as an ideology unwilling to ...

The Joinery in Lismore aims to become a flood-resilient cultural hub for NORPA and the Northern Rivers region's performing ...

TOKYO -- After living through the tumultuous Showa period (1926-1989), the entire Heisei (1989-2019) and into the current Reiwa era, Japan's Princess Yuriko died on Nov. 15 at 101. In a series of ...

However, the majority of the J2Ms remained in the Japanese Home Islands to defend ... and by the time Emperor Hirohito called for a ceasefire, only 621 J2M Raidens were ever produced, and of ...

Kennedy was to have an audience with Japanese Emperor Hirohito Friday afternoon before meeting with Sukarno. Kennedy met with the 63-year-old Indonesian president in Jakarta in 1962. Sukarno ...

To the Allied Commander from one Hiromichi Kumazawa, self-styled “Emperor” and ... I consider Hirohito a war criminal. MacArthur is heaven’s messenger to Japan. . . . My father, who died ...

Furthermore, he was utterly convinced that the Japanese army had been personally led by Emperor Hirohito, who, he claimed, had specifically ordered the infamous Rape of Nanking. I admired this young ...