07/01/1989 · Hirohito was emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. He oversaw the country during World War II and the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hirohito (1901-1989) was emperor of Japan ...

03/01/2022 · Hirohito, original name Michinomiya Hirohito, posthumous name Shōwa, (born April 29, 1901, Tokyo, Japan—died January 7, 1989, Tokyo), emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. He was the longest-reigning monarch in Japan’s history. Hirohito was born at the Aoyama Palace in Tokyo, the son of the Taishō emperor and grandson of the Meiji ...

12/11/2014 · Hirohito was Japan's longest-reigning emperor, holding the throne from 1926 to 1989. He was a controversial figure who announced Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945. Who Was Hirohito?

30/08/2021 · Top 10 Facts about Japanese Emperor Hirohito Hirohito was emperor of Japan from 1926 until 1989. When he took over, Japan was on the brink of rising democratic sentiment. Japan however favoured ultra-nationalism and militarism. Under his leadership, Hirohito allied with Nazi Germany and attacked its Asian neighbours during World War II.

Top Image: Emperor Hirohito inspects Japanese troops, 1938. Courtesy of Asahi Shimbun. One line of argument about Japan’s surrender maintains the crucial step was a US pledge that Emperor Hirohito could remain on the throne. This superficially seems plausible because in the end, the United States did permit Hirohito to remain on the throne.

12/11/2018 · Hirohito became the 124 th Emperor of Japan on December 25, 1926—he was only 25. He took on what can only be described as a uniquely complex role. The BBC observes that the Emperor did not believe himself “a God in the sense of being a supernatural supreme being.” Yet from the “6th century onwards” it was accepted that the Emperor was “descended from the …

When asked to name the worst mass murderer in history, most people would likely answer Adolf Hitler, but he is in a distant fourth place behind Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong), the Chinese dictator who killed 70 million, Joseph Stalin, who killed an estimated 20 million, and Emperor Hirohito of Japan, who killed even more than Stalin.

10/09/2014 · Wed 10 Sep 2014 10.52 EDT. Japan's wartime emperor, Hirohito, congratulated his forces on victories as the country made a brutal sweep across mainland Asia but warned that an attack on the US ...