TOKYO — Dec. 8, 1941, was a busy day for Emperor Hirohito. After receiving reports of the successful Japanese surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor and other strategic sites in the Pacific--a battle ...

Since Japan's defeat in World War II, the attempt to heap blame upon one or more individuals for the war in Asia has been a kind of exercise among some scholars and a "gotcha" game for journalists ...

On the starboard bow deck of this battleship in Tokyo bay, her representatives signed a surrender document which made her her 80,000,000 people from Emperor Hirohito down subject to the authority ...

Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan on Aug. 15, 1945, ... men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight," MacArthur said on Sept. 2, 1945.

The tired, bespectacled little man whom the Japanese regard as the Son of Heaven emerged from his walled and moated palace for the first time since the conquerors had landed in his country. He wore ...