Emperor Hirohito of Japan was born on the 29th of April 1901. He rose to become the 124th and the longest serving Emperor of the Island nation. He took the reins of power in 1926 at the age of 25.
He presided over the Japanese Empire that leapfrogged out of Korea into Manchuria to create a puppet state. He ruled when the second Sino-Japanese war resulted in warcrimes by Japan such as the rape of Nanking. He brought Japan into conflict with the USA in WW2. It was his radio broadcast to the people after the atomic bombs fell and after Russia unleashed its Siberian divisions on Manchuria which prevented a complete bloodbath. He told his people they must endure the unendurable which is a metaphor for surrender in a nation where nobody ever actually says what they mean.
After the war the Americans ensured Hirohito remained as the leader of the nation. They made sure there was no evidence linking him to war crimes because the USA wanted Japan intact as an American vassal state to act as a stopper for Russian expansion in the Pacific. It was very clear who was in charge in 1946 when he was pressured to renounce his divinity. He lived on until the ripe old age of 88 in 1989. By the end of his life he was the final ruler on the planet to hold the title “Emperor”. With his passing the age of Imperialism ended.
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