Art: Hirohito to Harvard; Art: Hirohito to Harvard. 4 minute read. TIME. September 14, 1936 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... ¶ Two light wooden masks, the personal property of the Emperor, ...

Portrait of Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako in formal ceremonial dress, standing on a dais. Culture Japanese Date 1989 ... Wood, clay, paint, and fluorescent light Owner/Location Sidney Janis ...

Heavy books with lots of footnotes generally land with more of a thud than a bang, so a mild-mannered professor named Herbert Bix wasn't expecting an international sensation when he published the ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has started a weeklong visit to Mongolia that will honor Japanese World War II prisoners ...

TOKYO — Dec. 8, 1941, was a busy day for Emperor Hirohito. After receiving reports of the successful Japanese surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor and other strategic sites in the Pacific--a battle ...