Emperor Hirohito, Son of Heaven, last week took his first airplane ride. Dressed in light blue with a red polka-dot tie, he sat diffidently through the flight in a curtained-off compartment ...

Hirohito, Son of Heaven and Scion of the Sun Goddess, last week denied his own identity: “We have … to proceed unflinchingly toward elimination of misguided practices of the past. . . .

The Emperor of Japan is not a man. He is 39 years old, has six human children, weighs about 135 pounds, eats, sleeps and fans himself; but he is not a man. Hirohito, Son of the Sun Goddess, is a ...

The emergence, less than 80 years ago, of Hirohito’s grandfather as a qualified son of heaven was largely the result of political engineering. Japan’s real rulers ...

Will live and prosper together. Last week these lines were announced as His Imperial Highness Emperor Hirohito’s contribution (not eligible for a prize) to the annual Imperial Poetry Contest ...

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 the ...