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.

Although the US Navy had a significant advantage because ... His acclaimed works, Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945 and Empires at War: A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War ...

Hirohito (1901-1989), posthumously known as ... as a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The existence of his diary came to light after many of its entries were incorporated into the annals ...

According to a 1987 interview with Grand Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa, who served the emperor for 50 years at the Imperial Palace, Hirohito's affinity for the biological began in the sixth grade ...