Emperor Hirohito, 1945. Library of Congress ... which included posts in China and Italy before he became Ambassador to England in 1936. According to Finn, "in London he developed considerable ...

Elizabeth, whose 70-year reign began in 1952, hosted two Japanese state visits during her reign: Emperor Hirohito in 1971 ... during his time studying in England in the 1980s.

Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito's brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has ...

The notes were dictated by the emperor and written down by an aide A memoir by former Japanese Emperor Hirohito about World War Two has been bought by a Japanese surgeon accused of denying the ...

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 ...

Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, declared the opening of both the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics. Emperor Emeritus Akihito officially opened the ...

Emperor Hirohito, 1945. Library of Congress ... which included posts in China and Italy before he became Ambassador to England in 1936. According to Finn, "in London he developed considerable ...