If ever a picture was worth a thousand words, it was the image of General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito standing side by side during their historic first meeting on September 27, 1945.

Nihon Hidankyo is not alone in winning the Nobel peace prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.

Inspired by Messerschmitt's Me 262, the Nakajima Kikka (Orange Blossom) was a secret weapoin Japan hoped would turn the tide ...

If ever a picture was worth a thousand words, it was the image of General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito standing side by side during their historic first meeting on September 27, 1945.

Emperor Hirohito appeared to be preparing for war against the United States about two months before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, according to a diary that raises further questions about his ...

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 ...

Sitting in the tiny office of the protest group in central Tokyo, Nomura said wartime emperor Hirohito was a war criminal who committed crimes against humanity during World War Two. "Hirohito had ...

Narrabri’s last surviving World War II veteran Arthur Wells, who sadly died in September aged 97, has been recognised for his ...

In August 1945, he was at an air base when Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender after atomic bombs ravaged Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war, Mr. Yoshioka worked at a transport ...

I always forget how knackering October is. And I can’t use the word ‘knackering’ without hearing my grandmother wincing from ...