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Showa Tenno Hirohito, the 124th Japanese monarch in an imperial line
dating back to 660 B.C., dies after serving six decades as the emperor
of Japan. He was the longest serving monarch in Japanese history.
Made regent in 1921, Hirohito was enthroned as emperor in 1928, two
years after the death of his father, Emperor Taisho. During his first
two decades as emperor, Hirohito presided over one of the most turbulent
eras in his nation’s history. From rapid military expansion beginning in
1931 to the crushing defeat of Japan in 1945, Hirohito stood above the
Japanese people as an absolute monarch whose powers were sharply limited
in practice. After U.S. atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
it was he who argued for his country’s surrender, explaining to the
Japanese people in his first-ever radio address that the “unendurable
must be endured.ö Under U.S. occupation and postwar reconstruction,
Hirohito was formally stripped of his powers and forced to renounce his
alleged divinity, but he remained his country’s official figurehead
until his death in 1989. He was succeeded as emperor by his only son,
Akihito.
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