antarmike Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Michinomiya Hirohito is enthroned as the 124th Japanese monarch. Emperor Hirohito presided over one of the most turbulent eras in his nation’s history. From rapid military expansion beginning in 1931 to the crushing defeat of Japan by Allied forces in 1945, Hirohito ruled the Japanese people as an absolute monarch whose powers were nevertheless sharply limited in practice. After the dropping of the two nuclear bombs on Japan,Hirohito argued for his country’s surrender, explaining to the Japanese people in his first-ever radio address that the unendurable must be endured. Under U.S. occupation and post-war reconstruction, Hirohito was formally stripped of his powers and forced to renounce his alleged divinity, but he remained his country’s official figurehead until his death in 1989. He was the longest-reigning monarch in Japanese history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted November 12, 2008 Author Share Posted November 12, 2008 12th November 1948 Japan’s former premier Hideki Tojo and several other Japanese leaders are sentenced to death by an international war crimes tribunal in Tokyo for their parts in the Second World War. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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