The four-minute radio address ended a war, obliterated the 20-year imperial ideology, and began Japan's rebirth into what it is today. AP. On this day in 1945, one week after atomic bombs had ...

Nationalists in Japan seem to have discovered only recently that the “outside world” does not share many of their views, especially those related to Japan’s wartime deeds, such as Imperial ...

This new “imperial bushido” rapidly became an important part of the state ideology, and was widely used in civilian and military education in Japan until 1945.

Japan's Emperor Akihito waves to well-wishers as he appears on the bullet-proofed balcony of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Dec. 23, 2017.

This new “imperial bushido” rapidly became an important part of the state ideology, and was widely used in civilian and military education in Japan until 1945.

Regarding the Sept. 9 AP article 'Official history of late Emperor Hirohito dodges controversies': I think the key to understand its content lies in the following sentence from the article: 'The ...

But from around summer 1943, officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy had begun considering the merits of suicide missions. ... 56, a professor of political ideology history at Keio University, ...