In the eighty years since of the atomic bombings of Japan dozens of opportunities to halt the macabre march of nuclear ...

Japan’s imitative ability last week turned to politics. Emperor Hirohito and his Shidehara Cabinet, with General MacArthur’s enthusiastic endorsement, offered the Japanese 16 closely typed ...

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, in 1946. Since then, strange rents have appeared in the densely woven fabric of Japanese society, ranging from Emperor Hirohito’s public disavowal of the ...

According to the author, American Shogun is an attempt to weave the lives of two leaders, General Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito of Japan, into a single narrative ‘told from both sides’.

Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Telets (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted ...

IWO-TO, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito on Monday visited Iwo Jima to pay tribute to those who died on the island where ...