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

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.

Tokyo — After Japan protested, Ukraine's government has apologized and removed a photo of Japanese wartime Emperor Hirohito from a video showing him with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, officials ...

TOKYO (AP) — Ukraine’s government has apologized and removed a photo of Japanese wartime Emperor Hirohito from a video showing him with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini after Japan protested, ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Seated on a dais in Tokyo's Imperial Palace, Hirohito watched silently ...

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DILEMMA IN JAPAN—Andrew Roth—Little, Brown ($2.50). Now that Japan has been conquered by scientific, mechanical and military skill, has the U.S. the political skill to make the victory stick? Andrew ...

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TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese cosmetic surgeon criticised for praising Nazis and playing down Japan's wartime atrocities won an auction for a memoir by Emperor Hirohito that chronicles the nation's ...