Later Sunday, he was to celebrate his birthday at a palace banquet. The war was fought in the name of his grandfather, then- Emperor Hirohito. Naruhito said he and Masako, who were born after the ...
The emperor's 2021 and 2022 greetings, which attract huge crowds to the palace's usually cloistered ... in the name of Naruhito's grandfather Hirohito. Over the decades since Japan's defeat ...
Makino found the manuscripts in the Fukiage section of the Imperial Palace, where Hirohito spent his later years. They were among a stack of papers Makino collected for disposal. He thought the ...