During World War II, Hirohito was the head of state of Japan and the Supreme Commander of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces. He was responsible for making all major decisions regarding the war, including the decision to attack Pearl Harbor.
After the war, Hirohito was allowed to remain on the throne as a symbol of Japan's sovereignty. He became a constitutional monarch, with limited powers. He died in 1989.
With eight hundred thousand people in the 18th century, London was the largest city in Europe, where the greatest fortunes of the British Empire could be found and the most miserable neighborhoods in which homeless people, petty thieves, prostitutes... simply survived. Crimes against property were t
Australian archaeologists have found some of the most detailed examples of rare and small-scale rock art, virtually miniature, made using the stencil technique or stencil in a rock shelter traditionally used by the Marra people, Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory. The research, published i
When you think of people from New Zealand, what do you envision? White people? Maybe semi-British, semi-Australian sounding people? Maybe a famous person from a movie youve seen or love? Thats exactly what I used to imagine in my mind. And because of colonialism and globalization, its almost exactly
The TAboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders are Australias first people or native Australians. However, British colonization led to the near extinction of the first nations in 19 th and 20 th centuries. To this day, there are reports that they continue to be discriminated against. The Abor