Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has ...

Shortly after his Malta visit, he succeeded his father as Emperor of Japan up to ... Korean nationalists were plotting to assassinate Hirohito in Malta. Japan had invaded and annexed Korea in ...

Dozens of children belonging to Camp Zama personnel visited here Monday to see the workplaces of their parents and explore ...

January 1989 The couple become Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko after Akihito ascends to the throne, following the death of his father Emperor Hirohito (Shōwa). June 1990 Her son, Prince ...

As his father had, MacArthur received the Medal of ... MacArthur spared the life of the Japanese Emperor and allowed Hirohito to continue on the throne, albeit in a severely diminished role ...

The New Zealand novelist Catherine Chidgey ought to be much more celebrated in this country than she is. Do not be put off by the fact that The Axeman’s Carnival (Europa, £14.99) is narrated by ...

The closing of the U.S. busiest immigrant processing station, the crowning of a new emperor in Japan and the birthday of the “Godfather of Grunge.” ...

Japanese Princess Yuriko, the oldest member of Japan's imperial family, passed away at 101. She died due to old age, possibly pneumonia, after a year marked by health challenges, including a stroke.

Two years after the death of his father, Michinomiya Hirohito is enthroned as the 124th Japanese monarch in an imperial line dating back to 660 B.C. Emperor Hirohito presided over one of the most ...

Herbert Axelrod, pictured with another of his great passions — the violin. Image: Barcroft Media. Dr. Herbert Axelrod has died at the age of 89. Nathan Hill looks back on the life of the ichthyologist ...

Gabriela Neufeld, 27, is accused of having a sexual relationship for at least a month with a then-18-year-old male student ...

The images of John Doe 49, the male pictured in the FBI poster, were sourced from a video believed to have been produced on ...