Hirohito
(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 Emp...
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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 ...
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On April 29, 1901, Hirohito was born at the Aoyama Palace in Tokyo. His father was the Crown Prince who later became known as Yoshihito, the Taisho Emperor, and his mother was Empress Sadako.
Soon...
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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...
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Japan's late Emperor Hirohito was discontent with Yasukuni
Shrine's enshrining of Class-A World War II criminals and concerned
about disputes with other Asian countries over history, a set of...
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Japan's late Emperor Hirohito was discontent with Yasukuni
Shrine's enshrining of Class-A World War II criminals and concerned
about disputes with other Asian countries ...
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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 releas...
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The late Emperor Hirohito was concerned about Yasukuni Shrine's
enshrinement of Class-A war criminals because he thought it would
adversely affect Japan's future relations with the countries ...
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A self-proclaimed right-wing activist was sentenced to 10 months
in prison Friday for throwing a Molotov cocktail at Nikkei Inc.'s
headquarters in Tokyo last July in protest at a report in th...
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Dec 18 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on December 25 since 1900: 1914 - A group of British and German soldiers
observed an unofficial "Christmas Truce" on the ...
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