In December 1941, Imperial Japan opened the Pacific theater of World War Two with two acts of stunning shortsightedness. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the near-simultaneous invasion of the Malay ...

With the death of His Imperial Majesty Yoshihito Tenno (TIME, Jan. 3) there began last week the usual sacrifices of loyal subjects in his honor. Hundreds of young girls cut off their hair and ...

German correspondents in Tokyo cabled a close-up view of one of the war’s rarely seen, little-known figures: Hirohito, Japan’s 124th Tenno ... all meetings at the Imperial Military Staff ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the conclusion of the Tripartite Pact between Japan, Germany and Italy, an important precursor to the Pacific War ... Oshima was an Imperial Japanese ...