Art: Hirohito to Harvard; Art: Hirohito to Harvard. 4 minute read. TIME. September 14, 1936 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... ¶ Two light wooden masks, the personal property of the Emperor, ...

Portrait of Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako in formal ceremonial dress, standing on a dais. Culture Japanese Date 1989 ... Wood, clay, paint, and fluorescent light Owner/Location Sidney Janis ...

Frankly, it's difficult to know how to deal with Aleksandr Sokurov's historical phantasmagoria The Sun. The film is a depiction of Japan's Emperor Hirohito at the end of the Second World War ...

Heavy books with lots of footnotes generally land with more of a thud than a bang, so a mild-mannered professor named Herbert Bix wasn't expecting an international sensation when he published the ...

A forthcoming public-television docudrama that holds the Japanese Emperor Hirohito fully responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor has prompted scholars and experts on Japan to denounce the ...

AN unusual gift presented to the wife of an American general by the Emperor of Japan after the second World War has unexpectedly turned up at an auction house in West Cork. Hegarty’s fine art ...

** Emperor Japan has surrendered. General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) tasks a deputy, General Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox), to investigate whether Emperor Hirohito should be charged with ...

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.