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 ...

Hirohito, Son of the Sun Goddess, is a lot of things. He is fierce samurai battles, snowcapped volcanoes, the flowering mimosa, fat carp in mountain pools.

Princess Yuriko became the sister-in-law of Japan's World War II-era Emperor Hirohito when she married his brother Prince Mikasa.

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

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 ...