Emperor Hirohito

A Postscript From Japan

Murray Fromson | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Dai-Ichi, Japan Earthquake, Michiko, Emperor Hirohito, Akihito, Media, Japan, Japanese Emperor, World News
Murray Fromson

At the height of the crisis, the Emperor and Empress opened their hospital to those in need of medical emergency. They also opened their hot bath facilities in their summer palace to a nearby shelter.

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Akihito and Michiko

Murray Fromson | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Dai-Ichi, Japan Earthquake, Emperor Hirohito, Douglas MacArthur, Japan, Michiko, Akihito, Japanese Emperor, World News
Murray Fromson

Only those of us who served in Japan in the 1950s might have shaken our heads after Thursday's frontpage photos in the New York Times that showed Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko consoling evacuees.

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65 Years Later, a POW's Son Reflects on Hiroshima

Paul Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Levine

The debate over dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima has always been more personal than numerical to me. The devastating attack surely saved my father's life.

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Obama Bows, Conservatives Bitch, Reality Bites

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jackson Williams

President Obama bowed this week when greeting Japanese Emperor Akihito, and the conservative media and blogosphere went positively apoplectic.

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Bad Dreams From My Grandfather

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.17.2011

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Daniel Bruno Sanz

Shadowy non-state actors contemplate flattening an American city with a device smuggled into the United States at one hundred possible ports of entry.

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