FUKUOKA, Japan - “Eighty years ago today, (my father, Lt. Kentaro Toji) was one of the executioners in an incident involving ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad Naruhito's father, the 91-year-old former Emperor Akihito, cared especially about Okinawa because of its difficult history, setting an example for his son ...

In contrast to his grandfather, the late wartime emperor Hirohito, who was revered as a deity until Japan lost the war, Crown Prince Akishino said at a news conference in 2024 that politicians ...

Thus, in the year 660 B.C. began the divine dynasty whose 124th scion is the Emperor Hirohito, the Magnanimous-Exalted, the Sublime Majesty, the Imperial Son of Heaven of Dai Nippon (Great Japan ...

Two million workers pledged that every month for the next three years each will pitch five sen into a “War Chest” of $720,000 which will be offered to the Sublime Emperor Hirohito, “Son of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Princess Mikasa, the oldest member of the Japanese royal family, died at 101 after being hospitalized since March. Born Yuriko Takagi in 1923, she married Prince Takahito and had five children.