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 ...

Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany surrendering in ... The bombings kill an estimated 214,000 people and force Japan to surrender. Emperor Hirohito announces ...

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

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

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 House of Hohenzollern sat on the German Imperial throne of the Second Reich for all 47 years of that Reich’s existence, from 1871 to 1918, when it fell after Germany’s defeat in the Great War. It ...

From the Cuban missile crisis to the election of Donald Trump, history has seen inflection points where alternative outcomes ...

Naruhito and Masako, both born after World War II, have heard stories about the ... desire for peace,” Naruhito has said. Emperor Hirohito, Akihito’s father, visited recuperation homes for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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