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Name: Hirohito
Birth Date: April 29, 1901
Death Date: January 7, 1989
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Place of Death: Tokyo, Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Male
Occupations: emperor

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Biography of Hirohito
1,536 words, approx. 5 pages
Hirohito (1901-1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan. He reigned during a period of internal turmoil, foreign expansion, international war, and national defeat, and presided over the transformation of the Japanese monarchy into a purely symbolic...


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Hirohito 裕仁 (29 April 1901 – 7 January 1989) The Emperor Shōwa of Japan Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Gyokuon-hōsō (1945) 2 Attributed 3 External links // Sourced When I consider the dead and their families, I cannot repress my mental agony. Draft of...


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Hirohito Summary
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(1901–1989), Japanese emperor. On 29 April 1901, Michinomiya Hirohito was born as the first son of Japanese Crown Prince Yoshihito (later Emperor Taisho) and Princess Sadako (later Empress Teimei). The lineage of the Japanese emperor system is...
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Hirohito Information
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Emperor Shōwa (昭和天皇, Shōwa-ten'nō?) (April 29, 1901 – January 7, 1989) was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from December 25 1926 until his death in 1989. In the Western World, he is...


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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Hirohito was no puppet of military
09/24/2000: 832 words, approx. 3 pages
Hirohito was no puppet of military, book says Emperor's image as passive leader was myth created by him and U.S., historian says By J.L. HAZELTON Associated Press Sunday, September 24, 2000 Tokyo -- Japan's wartime emperor, no puppet of...
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The Boston Globe
Hirohito Is Said To Be Stabilizing
09/21/1988: 302 words, approx. 1 pages
TOKYO - Emperor Hirohito, the world's longest-reigning monarch, was repeatedly vomiting blood and under round-the-clock care yesterday, but officials said the condition of the 87-year-old leader was stabilizing. Imperial Household Agency officials said doctors gave the emperor three blood transfusions yesterday after he...
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AP News
Report: Hirohito's war shrine concerns
8/4/2007: 398 words, approx. 1 pages
Japan's wartime Emperor Hirohito was against including convicted war criminals at a Tokyo war shrine because he worried the move would damage relations with the country's Asian neighbors, according to new documents published Saturday.The reports back up and provide an explanation for earlier findings about...
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Excerpts of Japan emperor diary released
3/9/2007: 414 words, approx. 1 pages
Shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack, Emperor Hirohito told aides he hoped to visit the South Pacific after the war, when the entire region would be Japanese territory, according to a newly released journal. He also said, however, he did not want Japan to go...
 


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The Biography of Hirohito
1,116 words, approx. 4 pages
The Showa Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989) served as the 124th emperor of Japan from 1928 until his death. In the wake of Japan's surrender that ended World War II, Hirohito relinquished his claim to being a sacred monarch, and political power was transferred from the emperor to a legislative parliament under a new Japanese constitution created by General Douglas MacArthur and civilian Japanese leaders.


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