A: At noon on Aug. 15, days after the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9, Japanese Emperor Hirohito broadcast a surrender message to his people on the radio.

Then, on August 23, eight days after Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced his nation’s surrender, Bremyer’s superior at the ...

Emperor Hirohito ... 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 lost 2.3 million soldiers ...

According to a 1987 interview with Grand Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa, who served the emperor for 50 years at the Imperial Palace, Hirohito's affinity for the biological began in the sixth grade ...

At the end of World War II, as part of Japan's surrender, a new constitution redefined the role of the emperor and Emperor Hirohito publicly renounced his divine status. The Japanese military ...

Naruhito, the grandson of Japan's longest reigning emperor, Hirohito, has only a daughter ... the family that were "lopped off" after Japan's surrender at the end of the Second World War, as ...

Emperor Hirohito stepped to the front of a white platform and waved a languid New Year’s blessing to the crowd. Eight times the park emptied and filled, bringing 174,000 Japanese into the royal ...

The 1945 announcement of Japan’s surrender by Emperor Hirohito was transmitted from here to military personnel on overseas battlefronts. When it was completed in 1940, Yamata, now part of Koga ...

There was even discussion of a third bomb, but that proved unnecessary when Emperor Hirohito took the unprecedented step of announcing a Japanese surrender. In this masterly book, Thomas shows exactly ...

Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government ...

Emperor Hirohito ... 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 lost 2.3 million soldiers ...