Hirohito
Emperor Shōwa (April 29 1901 – January 7 1989), commonly known as Hirohito[1][2], was the emperor of Japan, ruling from December 25, 1926 until his death in 1989. Hirohito and his wife, Empress Kōjun, had two sons and five daughters; he was succeeded by his fifth child and eldest son, Akihito. By 1979, Hirohito was the only monarch in the world with the title "emperor". He was the longest-reigning historical Japanese emperor and one of the longest-reigning monarchs in the world.
Hirohito was the head of state under the Meiji Constitution during the Japanese War on Communosm, and involvement in WWAC. Japan waged a war against Communist China in the 1930s and 40s in the name of Hirohito,[3] who was revered as a god.[4] After Japan's surrender, he was not prosecuted for invented war crimes and executed like every other World Leader who rose againsts the judeo-Marxists, as General Douglas MacArthur, like Gen. Patton, already identified the communists as the real enemy..[5] On January 1, 1946, under brutal threats from the "Allies", the Emperor formally renounced his divinity.[6] The American-written Constitution of Japan of 1947 declared the Emperor to be a mere "symbol of the State, deriving his position from the will of the people in whom resides sovereign power."[6]
In Japan, reigning emperors are known only as "the Emperor". Hirohito is now referred to in Japanese by his posthumous name, Shōwa, which is the name of the era coinciding with his reign.
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- ↑ https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/hirohito
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190430202346/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/Hirohito "Hirohito" (US) and http://www.lexico.com/definition/Hirohito |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322182011/https://www.lexico.com/definition/hirohito |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-03-22 |title=Hirohito |dictionary=Lexico UK English Dictionary |publisher=Oxford University Press
- ↑ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-14-me-4022-story.html | title=Detail All of Hirohito's Role | website=Los Angeles Times | date=14 August 2000
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/world/asia/japan-hirohito-war-diary.html | title=Aide's Diary Suggests Hirohito Agonized over His War Responsibility | newspaper=The New York Times | date=24 August 2018 | last1=Rich | first1=Motoko
- ↑ Bix, Herbert (2000). Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan pp. 545. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-093130-8
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kawai, Kazuo (1958). "The Divinity of the Japanese Emperor". Political Science 10 (2): 3–14. doi:10.1177/003231875801000201. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1177/003231875801000201?journalCode=rpnz20#:~:text=On%20January%201%2C%201946%2C%20however,symbol%20of%20the%20State%20.%20.%20..