“The emperor seemed at ease and unshakable once he had made a decision,” he quoted Tojo as saying. To what extent Hirohito was ... the post for most of World War II. Furukawa said Tojo ...

On this day 70 years ago, Emperor Hirohito announced to his people that Japan would surrender to the Allies in World War II. George Koo of the Asia Times remembers the historic speech. Before the ...

One of the most carefully nurtured myths of the post-World War II era is that Japan’s Emperor Hirohito was little more than a figurehead, a passive front man, for the militarists who waged ...

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 – A 12,000-page history of Emperor Hirohito released in Japan ... his thinking on issues such as his responsibility for World War II. The record took 24 years to create, but scholars ...

“Throughout the day, the emperor wore his naval uniform ... system--not only before but also after World War II. The book documents how Hirohito and his aides collaborated with U.S. occupation ...

Myth 1: Emperor Hirohito was a God After the overthrow ... He is the author of Empires at War: A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War II (2009). His latest book is Hirohito’s War ...