KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @STARADVERTISER.COM Carey Callaghan, grandson of the USS Missouri’s Capt. William Callaghan, delivers a keynote address to attendees at a ceremony on Friday honoring the 80th ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito is visiting Iwo Jima to pay tribute to those who died on the island where one of World War II's harshest battles was fought 80 years ago ...

Was Hirohito really as passive as history has painted him? Emperor Hirohito stood at the head of Japan’s war machine, yet after 1945, both the Japanese and the Americans painted him as a ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday to pay tribute to those who died on the island where one of the Second World War’s harshest battles was fought 80 years ago. The visit by Naruhito ...

by Emperor Hirohito himself. Twenty-five years later, Mishima will still cherish this memory. “I watched the Emperor sitting there without moving for three hours. This was at my graduation ceremony.

On August 15, 1945, Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan, claiming that Japan accepts the Potsdam Proclamation. On September 2, the Instrument of Surrender signed by ...

When the building’s ownership was transferred to Konoe in 1937, Kinmochi Saionji (1849-1940), an adviser to Emperor Hirohito and a close friend of Konoe (1891-1945), suggested the residence be ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito on Monday visited Iwo Jima to pay tribute to those who died on the island where one of World War ...

The building is also known as the place where Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, signed the instruments of ratification for the San Francisco Peace Treaty and the Japan-U.S ...