biography
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Showa Tenno (‘Emperor’) Hirohito
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pronunciation:
[shoha tenoh hiroh
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| male
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| lived:
| (1901–89)
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| biography:
| Emperor of Japan (1926–89), the 124th in direct lineage, born in Tokyo, Japan. His reign was marked by rapid militarization and aggressive wars against China (1931–2, 1937–45) and against the USA and Britain (1941–5), which ended with the two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Under US occupation, in 1946 Hirohito renounced his legendary divinity and most of his powers to become a democratic constitutional monarch. |
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