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Japan marks end of WWII as survivors remember wartime emperor’s surrender speech 80 years ago
Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of Japan’s World War II surrender, but as living ...
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After WWII, Hirohito’s weak leadership saved him from certain death, but his downfall was still humiliating
For the Japanese people, Hirohito was a god. But behind the gilded facade and the royal duty he was born to, Hirohito was just a man like any other, and a flawed one at that. While his reign as ...
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