Emperor Hirohito was a man who wore many hats. Most famously, he was Japan's head of state during WWII. As emperor, he was the stoic and elegant embodiment of Japan. But he was also a family man ...

Myth 2: Hirohito was simply a constitutional monarch forced into war by his generals. In March 1946, some nine months after the Pacific War had been brought to an end, Emperor Hirohito made a ...

A 12,000-page history of Emperor Hirohito released in Japan on Tuesday includes childhood letters to his parents but steps gingerly around what many want to know: his thinking on issues such as ...

Emperor Hirohito (8 pm)Hirohito was Emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. His role in Japan's government in the World War Two remains highly… ...

One of the most carefully nurtured myths of the post-World War II era is that Japan's Emperor Hirohito was little more than a figurehead, a passive front man, for the militarists who waged ...