and fulfil my responsibility as the symbol of the state and of the ... renounced his divinity at the end of World War Two, as part of Japan's surrender. Today, the role is largely ceremonial ...

Tokyo has all but thrown out the legal limitations set in Article 9 of the constitution, which bans Japan from acquiring ...

The white flag and red cross would serve both hospitals and ambulances as symbols of neutrality ... Treatment of Prisoners of War was signed by 47 governments. Japan signed the 1929 convention ...