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Gadsden Times
March 2, 2018
The answer is simple: Japan's civilian leaders, led by Emperor Hirohito, listened to the vitriol of the Japanese military, led by Gen. Hideki Tojo. Japan's military previously had huge successes in China, Singapore and many British possessions, giving it a feeling of invincibility. As portrayed in the book, theÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
March 1, 2018
From the Betty that hit the water, Admiral Ugaki survived (hours after Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender on August 15, 1945, Ugaki took off in a kamikaze and was never heard from again). A Japanese search party hacked through the jungle until they found Yamamoto's plane. “Afterward theÃâà...
Khmer Times
February 22, 2018
An opposing take on a widely believed story about Japan's most significant figure, “Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan” sheds light on the role of Emperor Hirohito during one of Japan's most militarised time in history. The book reveals how much power the emperor had in controlling the politics andÃâà...
Kyodo News Plus
February 19, 2018
7, 1989, following the death of his father Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa. The emperor, who has had heart surgery and underwent treatment for prostate cancer, expressed his desire to retire in a rare video message televised in August 2016, citing concern about his advancedÃâà...
Mid-Devon Advertiser
February 4, 2018
TRAFFIC WARDEN: Les 'Hirohito' Brockwell pictured in 1986 dishing out Christmas cards to parked cars rather than parking tickets. MOTORISTS in Teignmouth were amazed to find Christmas cards poked under the windscreen wipers when returning to their parked cars in December 1986, writes VivÃâà...
Sputnik International
December 8, 2017
Dr. Katsuya Takasu, a cosmetic surgeon from Japan, has become the owner of Japanese Emperor Hirohito's memoirs. The emperor led Japan into World War II as part of the Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Takasu paid $275,000 for the lot, almost twice as much as auction hosts expectedÃâà...
Auction Central News
December 8, 2017
NEW YORK (AP) – A Japanese plastic surgeon known for his extreme political views has purchased at auction for $275,000 a memoir by Japanese Emperor Hirohito offering his recollections of World War II. The 173-page document was sold Wednesday at Bonhams auction house in Manhattan for nearlyÃâà...
BBC News
December 7, 2017
A memoir by former Japanese Emperor Hirohito about World War Two has been bought by a Japanese surgeon accused of denying the Holocaust and the Nanjing massacre. Known as the Emperor's Monologue, the memoir chronicles the slide into war until Japan's surrender in August 1945. Dr KatsuyaÃâà...
The Japan Times
November 21, 2017
What may be the only existing copy of Emperor Hirohito's account of World War II and the era leading up to the conflict is set to go on the auction block in New York next month. The 173-page, two-volume document — known in Japan as “Showa Tenno Dokuhakuroku”(“Emperor Showa's Monologue”)Ãâà...
South China Morning Post
July 19, 2017
Writing a few weeks after the monarch's death, John Whitehead, Britain's ambassador to Japan, stated: “A man of stronger personality than Hirohito might have tried more strenuously to check the growing influence of the military in Japanese politics and the drift of Japan toward war with the western powers.
