Japan`s Emperor Hirohito, the world`s longest-reigning monarch, ... Meanwhile, Hirohito`s 55-year-old son, Crown Prince Akihito, automatically became Japan`s 125th emperor.

Emperor Hirohito woke up before dawn Tuesday, climbed onto the roof of his imperial villa and looked through a telescope at an acquaintance he hadn`t seen in 76 years–Halley`s comet. ”I am ...

Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989) ... Yoshida found MacArthur more accomodating, as the "Reverse Course" in American occupation policy had begun to favor the old industrial and bureaucratic elites, ...

Ceremonies for the 87-year-old monarch who reigned for 62 years began at 7:30 a.m. when Japan`s new Emperor Akihito, the 55-year-old son of Hirohito, conducted a private ”Cermony of Farewell ...

Hirohito, who acceded to the Chrysanthemum Throne in 1926, ... To me he just seemed a decent, old fellow,” said a Tokyo-based American businessman, who, as a 17- year-old Marine, ...

Emperor Hirohito, with a half-billion yen of his own invested in stocks and bonds and 140,000 of 300,000 available shares of the Bank of Japan, is an interested member of this tribe.

Ceremonies for the 87-year-old monarch who reigned for 62 years on 2,600- year-old Japan`s Chrysanthemum Throne began at 7:30 a.m. when Japan`s new Emperor Akihito, the 55-year-old son of Hirohito ...