Official U.S. Navy Photo/U.S. National Archives After Japan took all of Indochina in late July and was subjected to an American oil embargo, Emperor Hirohito asked Prime Minister Hideki Tojo—a ...

An iron knife and pieces of armor have been confirmed to be from the keyhole-shaped grave mound, the team said.

Unlike many shrines, Kashihara Jingu is bare of paint. That absence of colour as well as the massive wooden pillars and ...

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It was built by the Yongle emperor, the third Ming ruler (r. 1403-1424). He declared himself emperor and consolidated his power in Beijing, moving the capital some 620 miles from Nanjing in 1403.

The Imperial House of Japan is not a normal family. It is the oldest existing hereditary monarchy in the world, a mysterious clan descended from the gods of Japanese mythology. The family is also ...

After Commodore Matthew Perry visited Japan and cajoled the Tokugawa Shogunate to establish commercial and diplomatic relations, Japanese society was riven by divisions between modernizers and ...

Tokyo, Jun 5 (AP) Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family have visited Okinawa to honour the dead ahead of the 80th anniversary of one of the harshest battles of World War II. On what was his seventh ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. From left, Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, Empress ...

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A gory set of manuals, one dating to the 17th century, advised Japanese warriors in the secret ways of seppuku.