Some historians have expressed surprise that Hyakutake’s diaries contained numerous entries describing political and military affairs surrounding Hirohito. Many scholars viewed Hyakutake as an ...

Join the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia, as historian author and journalist Francis Pike presents two of his books, Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945, and Victory at ...

In between, however, he presided over one of the largest and most costly military ventures in human history. In the decades after the war, the accepted version of events held that Hirohito was ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki each had an Atomic bomb dropped on them, forcing the formal Japanese surrender on 15th August announced by Emperor Hirohito, and two weeks later, on September 2nd ...