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 opposite ...

TOKYOTOKYO — 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, ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the United States’ leader at the time of Pearl Harbor. The emperor he referred to in his famous Infamy speech was Hirohito. Here’s more about the Japanese ...

TOKYO — Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito's announcement of Japan's World War II surrender, but as living witnesses die and memories fade, questions remain in Japan about how the ...

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 ...

Five turning points in Asia's history directed by the barrel of a gun In an odd way his presence and personality became the one persistent unifying factor for his countrymen in a century of sharp and ...