Emperor Akihito's father, Japan's wartime Emperor Hirohito, did not visit Yasukuni after 14 Japanese class-A war criminals from World War Two were enshrined there in 1978. Although the emperors ...

Emperor Hirohito appeared to be preparing for war against the United States about two months before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, according to a diary that raises further questions about his ...

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 ...