FLAGS throughout PNG were flying at half mast yesterday as the country joined others world-wide to respect the death of ...

After Emperor Hirohito (aka Emperor Shōwa ... largely believe he played a sizable part in Japan's role during World War II.

The notes were dictated by the emperor ... making during the war remains controversial among historians. Unlike many senior government figures he was not tried for war crimes after WW2 but ...

Emperor Hirohito appeared to be preparing ... history with Shigakukan University who has studied Hirohito’s actions before and during the war, praised the discovery of Hyakutake’s diary.

If ever a picture was worth a thousand words, it was the image of General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito standing side by side during their historic first meeting on September 27, 1945.

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family waved from a balcony window to throngs of New Year’s well-wishers, some shouting, ...

Emperor Hirohito's scratchy penmanship will be on show for the first time with a collection of rare handwritten “waka” poems he composed in his waning years. The special exhibition at the ...

Born in 1923 as an aristocrat, Yuriko married at age 18 to Prince Mikasa, the younger brother of Hirohito and the great-uncle of current Emperor Naruhito, months before the start of World War II.

2019 -- North Korea's state media reports that leader Kim Jong-un is on a four-day trip to China for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. It was Kim's fourth trip to the neighboring ally, and ...