Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family have prayed for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II ...

After Emperor Hirohito (aka Emperor Shōwa) announced Japanese surrender to the Allies to end World War II on August 15, 1945, many around the globe fervently hoped he would soon be tried as a ...

TOKYO — Dec. 8, 1941, was a busy day for Emperor Hirohito. After receiving reports of the successful Japanese surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor and other strategic sites in the Pacific--a battle ...

Well, there's the story of real-life General Bonner Fellers, ordered to figure out Emperor Hirohito's culpability ... For more than 25 years, one of the signature pleasures of American movies ...

Japanese Emperor Hirohito was buried with a Mickey Mouse wristwatch after his death in 1989. Rating: Unfounded (About this rating?) Context: According to a newspaper article written at the time of ...

Emperor Hirohito's scratchy penmanship will be on show for the first time with a collection of rare handwritten “waka” poems he composed in his waning years. The special exhibition at the ...

The war was fought in the name of his grandfather, then- Emperor Hirohito. Naruhito said he and Masako, who were born after the war, have learned from his parents by hearing their stories of ...

According to a 1987 interview with Grand Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa, who served the emperor for 50 years at the Imperial Palace, Hirohito's affinity for the biological began in the sixth grade ...

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.