This is the day when fascism finally dies, as we always knew it would." The following day, Japan's Emperor Hirohito was heard ...

6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9, Japanese Emperor Hirohito broadcast a surrender message to his people on the radio. The broadcast came one day after Japan told the United States and its allies that it ...

Hirohito's ability to thwart the militarists ... and while he avoided using the word "surrender," his meaning was clear. Although "the voice of the crane" was heard far too late -- Japan had ...

Koreans had previously assumed that Hirohito's radio speech at noon on Aug. 15, 1945, was the first broadcast informing the ...

Known as the Emperor's Monologue, the memoir chronicles the slide into war until Japan's surrender in August 1945 ... In the recollection, Emperor Hirohito describes himself as having been ...

Hirohito's ability to thwart the militarists ... and while he avoided using the word "surrender," his meaning was clear. Although "the voice of the crane" was heard far too late -- Japan had ...

Emperor Hirohito appeared to be preparing for war against the United States about two months before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, according to a diary that raises further questions about his ...