Then, on August 23, eight days after Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced his nation’s surrender, Bremyer’s superior at the Messenger Mail Center handed him an order to deliver Perry’s old ...

They were ready to see the Japanese population exterminated rather than consider surrender. The decision of Hirohito to overrule the cabinet and declare surrender was extraordinary and ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki each had an Atomic bomb dropped on them, forcing the formal Japanese surrender on 15th August announced by Emperor Hirohito, and two weeks later, on September 2nd ...

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 ...

Emperor Hirohito and his government were largely in thrall to these young men who in June 1945 adopted a formal policy of no surrender. Thomas shows that Hirohito was more amenable to a negotiated ...