Hirohito, Son of the Sun Goddess, is a lot of things. He is fierce samurai battles, snowcapped volcanoes, the flowering mimosa, fat carp in mountain pools. He is exaggerated politeness ...

Fortnight ago a strangely ineffective bomb thrown in his direction left His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Hirohito, son of Heaven, untouched (TIME, Jan. 18). But it inflicted slight flesh wounds on ...

If ever a picture was worth a thousand words, it was the image of General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito standing side by side during their historic first meeting on September 27, 1945.

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 ...

An image of Emperor Hirohito was removed from a pro-Ukraine, anti-fascism video uploaded on Twitter after the Japanese government lodged a complaint to the Ukrainian Embassy in Tokyo. The Twitter ...

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 ...

If ever a picture was worth a thousand words, it was the image of General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito standing side by side during their historic first meeting on September 27, 1945.