Then, on August 23, eight days after Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced his nation’s surrender, Bremyer’s superior at the Messenger Mail Center handed him an order to deliver Perry’s old ...

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 ...

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 ...

They were ready to see the Japanese population exterminated rather than consider surrender. The decision of Hirohito to overrule the cabinet and declare surrender was extraordinary and ...

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 ...

Emperor Hirohito and his government were largely in thrall to these young men who in June 1945 adopted a formal policy of no surrender. Thomas shows that Hirohito was more amenable to a negotiated ...

15, 1945, to announce the nation’s surrender in World War II ... Miyawaki describes a scene in which he listens to Hirohito’s announcement with his father and sees a JNR train at Imaizumi ...