These features center around Aug. 15, the date when Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender in the war. But Takumi Sato, professor of media history at Sophia University, argues that war ...

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 ...

After Emperor Hirohito (aka Emperor Shōwa) announced Japanese surrender to the Allies to end World War II on August 15, 1945, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...