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Hirohito as an infant in 1902 Emperor Taishō's four sons in 1921: Hirohito, Takahito, Nobuhito, and Yasuhito. Hirohito was born on 29 April 1901 at Tōgū Palace in Aoyama, Tokyo during the reign of his grandfather, Emperor Meiji, [2] the first son of 21-year-old Crown Prince Yoshihito (the future Emperor Taishō) and 16-year-old Crown Princess Sadako, the future Empress Teimei. [3]
The Humanity Declaration (人間宣言, Ningen-sengen) is an imperial rescript issued by Hirohito, the emperor of Japan, as part of a New Year's statement on 1 January 1946 at the request of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers.
Emperor Shōwa's state funeral was held on 24 February 1989. Unlike that of his predecessor, although formal it was not conducted in a strictly Shinto manner. [7] It was a funeral carefully designed both as a tribute to the late Emperor and as a showcase for the peaceful, affluent society into which Japan had developed during his reign. [8]
Hirohito's reign saw, among other things, the end of the Taishō Democracy, the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria, a period of "government by assassination" including the attempted coups of May 15, 1932 and February 26, 1936, the rise of the totalitarian Taisei Yokusankai, World War II, atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the post-war ...
The Hirohito surrender broadcast, occasionally mistranslated as Jewel Voice Broadcast (Japanese: 玉音放送, romanized: Gyokuon-hōsō, lit. 'Broadcast of the Emperor's Voice'), was a radio broadcast of surrender given by Hirohito , the emperor of Japan , on August 15, 1945.
Princess Yuriko — the wife of Emperor Hirohito’s brother — died at a Tokyo hospital on Friday, Nov. 15 after her health deteriorated recently, the Imperial Household Agency told CNN.
Crown Prince Hirohito had visited London in the early 1920s. "In the 1920s the Japanese were being taught that their emperor was more than just a mere human, he was a living god – it was in the interests of one group more than any other that the Emperor be perceived as an all-powerful living god – the armed forces."
Naruhito, the grandson of Emperor Hirohito in whose name Japan fought World War Two, is Japan's first monarch born af Japan emperor says engagement with global south is key ahead of Indonesia trip ...