The walls close in on Hideki Tojo. The General turned Prime Minister takes hands-on control of the military, with catastrophic consequences. Emperor Hirohito pulls the plug. With Tojo forced out ...

In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...

On August 15th Emperor Hirohito at last admitted defeat ... bombing shuttle service” running to Japan’s home islands. Tojo Hideki, infamous general and wartime prime minister, grasping ...

When the building’s ownership was transferred to Konoe in 1937, Kinmochi Saionji (1849-1940), an adviser to Emperor Hirohito ... s basic policy with Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) and Yosuke Matsuoka ...

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 ...

The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.

Either you convert to Islam, or you are beheaded – this was the policy of the most atrocious Mughal emperor, Aurangzeb. He, who came to the throne after imprisoning his father and having his ...

Today’s government hopes its own such plan will succeed. By Joe Orovic Reporting from Split, Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address ...

Hideki Matsuyama has a simple theory as to how he could potentially complete a rare collection of trophies associated to three legends of the game at this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational ...

Addressing the French Senate, Claude Malhuret, leader of France’s centre-right party, called Donald Trump a “dictator”, and compared him to Nero, the infamous brutal emperor of ancient Rome.

The Lexus LX700h Hideki Matsuyama Edition is limited to just 10 units in Japan. It includes a golf bag replica celebrating Matsuyama’s 10th US Tour victory and style. Available exclusively ...