Emperor Hirohito, 1945. Library of Congress ... 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 ...

August 12, 1945 Japan receives America's response to the Japanese conditional surrender. Secretary of State James Byrnes makes it clear that Emperor Hirohito and the militarists will no longer be ...

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 ...

Historians often suggest that America’s super-weapon forced Hirohito to surrender in 1945. Look closer, and the truth is more ...

SAITAMA—Japan continued to operate its rail network even after Emperor Hirohito for the first time ... to announce the nation’s surrender in World War II, documents show.

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 ...