The 1945 defeat of the Imperial Japanese Army, and by extension of Emperor Hirohito and the country’s 2,000-year-old tradition of empire, unleashed in Japan a frenzy of national soul-searching ...

Japan`s Emperor Hirohito, the world`s longest-reigning monarch, ... Meanwhile, Hirohito`s 55-year-old son, Crown Prince Akihito, automatically became Japan`s 125th emperor.

Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989) ... Yoshida found MacArthur more accomodating, as the "Reverse Course" in American occupation policy had begun to favor the old industrial and bureaucratic elites, ...

Ceremonies for the 87-year-old monarch who reigned for 62 years began at 7:30 a.m. when Japan`s new Emperor Akihito, the 55-year-old son of Hirohito, conducted a private ”Cermony of Farewell ...

Emperor Hirohito woke up before dawn Tuesday, climbed onto the roof of his imperial villa and looked through a telescope at an acquaintance he hadn`t seen in 76 years–Halley`s comet. ”I am ...