The war between the US and Japan had started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The ...

It has since become a holiday celebrating Emperor Showa’s reign (also called Emperor Hirohito ... U.S. General Douglas MacArthur helped draft the new constitution, and Japan’s diet ratified ...

An older gentleman at the desk checked a woman into a hotel. She learned from staff that he was 98 years old! She later asked him how he could still be so active at his ...

It has since become a holiday celebrating Emperor Showa’s reign (also called Emperor Hirohito) and Japan’s Showa era ... unconditional surrender to allied forces, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur helped ...

In the darkest days of World War II, Gens. Douglas MacArthur and Jonathan Wainwright faced unsurmountable odds. Only one of them, however, was responsible for their dilemma. Against the threat of ...

The custom was originally started by Emperor Hirohito, the current Emperor's grandfather and posthumously known as Emperor Showa. Wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt, gray pants and black rain boots ...

They include: -- Publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1863 -- Musician Duke Ellington in 1899 -- Japanese Emperor Hirohito in 1901 -- Musician Toots Thielemans in 1922 -- Musician Lonnie Donegan ...

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 ...

A book by a US historian claiming Imperial Japanese Forces killed 30 million people across Asia in the early 20th century has faced a fierce backlash in Japan, with conservative scholars ...