Official 12,000-page biography reveals emperor's thinking but fails to settle debate over his role in decisions leading to Hiroshima ...

As the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, only a few veterans of Japan’s brutal war remain. “Never die for Emperor or country,” one advised. By Martin Fackler and Ko Sasaki Her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Memoirs from Emperor Hirohito, titled in Japanese "Emperor Showa's Monologue" transcribed by Terasaki Hidenari, will be auctioned ...

TOKYO >> A newly released memo by a wartime Japanese official provides what a historian says is the first look at the thinking of Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on the eve of the ...

Douglas MacArthur, the Allied powers’ supreme commander during the postwar occupation of Japan, helped shape a narrative that absolved the emperor of direct responsibility for the war.” Yes. For ...

In 2006, Bhumibol celebrated his Diamond Jubilee. In the days leading up to national celebrations, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan presented the king with the UN's fir ...

According to a newspaper article written at the time of Hirohito's funeral, spokespeople for Japan's imperial family refused to confirm "reports" the emperor was buried with a Mickey Mouse wristwatch.

On the night of Aug. 14, 1945, the bespectacled Emperor of Japan walked into the second-floor room of the Household Ministry in Tokyo, where the technicians from the national radio station, NHK, had ...

Five turning points in Asia's history directed by the barrel of a gun In an odd way his presence and personality became the one persistent unifying factor for his countrymen in a century of sharp and ...