Wartime leader’s Tokyo residence regains luster after makeover
The Tokyo residence of wartime Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe is now open to the public after extensive renovations to restore ...
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Empress Sadako, Hirohito appear in footage from Taisho Era
Hirohito (1901-1989), grandson of Emperor Meiji, is posthumously known as Emperor Showa. The footage, which runs for 4 minutes and 15 seconds, also shows a procession of horse-drawn carriages and ...
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Hirohito deleted from anti-fascist video that supports Ukraine
The original video ran about 80 seconds and showed a photo of Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, along with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. A statement under the three said ...
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Emperor Hirohito’s State Funeral
Hirohito succeeded his father as emperor in 1926. How far he whole-heartedly backed aggressive Japanese imperialism before and during the Second World War is disputed. Some historians believe he did, ...