Japan's Emperor Naruhito has announced plans to honor Japanese World War II prisoners during his visit to Mongolia next week.

Boots pounded against the polished floors of Japan's Imperial Palace as the rebels forced their way inside. They tore through ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki each had an Atomic bomb dropped on them, forcing the formal Japanese surrender on 15th August announced by Emperor Hirohito, and two weeks later, on September 2nd, the war was ...

A shrouded conspiracy unfurled in the dim and flickering shadows of Emperor Hirohito’s palace. The loyal imperial guard ...

A 74-year-old Japanese man named Hirohito Shibuya was recently arrested for grooming an adolescent girl — by showing her photos of aliens to scare her into having sex with him. Shibuya, who ...

In contrast to his grandfather, the late wartime emperor Hirohito, ... including Princess Aiko, who is 23 years old and the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako.

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.

Hirohito was born in the lying-in chamber of Tokyo’s Aoyama Palace on April 29, 1901. Japan itself was suffering a rebirth. ... When the future emperor was ten years old, ...

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Old Saito had been a valiant admiral and from 1932 to 1934 was Premier of Japan. Two machine guns now poked their snouts in his direction and youthful mustards were at the triggers.

A 76-year-old man who lived with his wife and several former wives in Tokyo has died a day before a court was to rule on a sexual assault case against him, police sources said Monday.