Tojo lost the support of Japan's Emperor Hirohito in 1944 as the war turned against Japan and he was forced to resign. After the country's unconditional surrender in September 1945 following the ...

If ever a picture was worth a thousand words, it was the image of General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito standing side by side during their historic first meeting on September 27, 1945.

Emperor Hirohito's scratchy penmanship will be on show for the first time with a collection of rare handwritten “waka” poems he composed in his waning years. The special exhibition at the ...