Japan`s Emperor Hirohito, ... Hirohito, 87, died quietly at 6:33 a.m. local time in his bed at Tokyo`s Imperial Palace, said Imperial Household Agency Grand Steward Shoici Fujimori.

A 12,000-page history of Emperor Hirohito released in Japan on Tuesday includes childhood letters to his parents but steps gingerly around what many want to know: his thinking on issues such as ...

The Imperial Household Agency released pictures of a bunker used by the late Emperor Hirohito during World War II where he approved Japan’s surrender to the Allied Forces 70 years ago.

TOKYO — The 4 1/2-minute speech that has reverberated throughout Japan’s modern history since it was delivered by Emperor Hirohito at the end of World War II has come back to life in digital form.

A forthcoming public-television docudrama that holds the Japanese Emperor Hirohito fully responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor has prompted scholars and experts on Japan to denounce the ...