Emperor Hirohito ... about Japan’s entry into a war with the West. Some documents showed that Hirohito assumed Japan would go to war and ruminated about how to end the war even before it had ...

After Emperor Hirohito (aka Emperor Shōwa) announced Japanese surrender to the Allies to end World War II on August 15, 1945, ...

For millions of Japanese, it brought home in an entirely new way the notion that they had lost the war. Emperor Hirohito ... his 62-year reign came to an end, Japan had risen like a Phoenix ...

15 as the war’s end, the day Japan’s emperor made a speech announcing the surrender ... 9, Japanese Emperor Hirohito broadcast a surrender message to his people on the radio.

For millions of Japanese, it brought home in an entirely new way the notion that they had lost the war. Emperor Hirohito ... his 62-year reign came to an end, Japan had risen like a Phoenix ...

Japan’s Emperor ... after waging war, is now trying to look like a pacifist." In the end, Tajima said, the celebratory nature of the ceremony called for a "more suitable" speech "expressing ...

Addressing the U.S. Congress on Hirohito’s birthday is an insult to Pacific War veterans.