Hirohito

The Mahalo Top 7

1. Wikipedia: Hirohito
2. PBS: Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989)
3. MacroHistory: Japan and Emperor Hirohito to 1936 
4. BBC News: Historic Figures: Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989) 
5. The Raw Story: "Scholar Links Bush's US and Hirohito's Japan" (October 31, 2007)
6. AsiaWeek: "Hirohito and the War: A Conversation With Biographer Herbert Bix" (November 30, 2000)
7. TIME Asia: "Emperor Hirohito" (August 30, 1999) 

Hirohito Background and Profiles

War Time Emperor

• Wikipedia: Shōwa Period
• Harvard University: Joint Study of the Sino-Japanese War 
• Columbia University: Japan and the United States at War: Pearl Harbor, August 1941
• BBC News: "Diary Reveals Hirohito War Doubts" (March 9, 2007)
• BBC News: "Hirohito 'Active' in War" (August 27, 2000)
• Mt. Holyoke College: "President Roosevelt to Emperor Hirohito of Japan" (December 6, 1941)

Surrender and Occupation

• Wikipedia: Surrender of Japan and Occupied Japan
• Constitutional Rights Foundation: Bringing Democracy to Japan 
• Japan Focus: "Hirohito and History" (July 24, 2005)
• Taiwan Documents: "First Instrument of Surrender" (September 2, 1945)

Yasukuni Shrine

• Wikipedia: Yasukuni Shrine
• International Herald Tribune: "Hirohito Quit Yasukuni Shrine Visits..." (April 26, 2007) 
• Japan Times: "Yasukuni, State in '69 OK'd War Criminal Inclusion" (March 29, 2007)
• New York Times: "Diaries Add Hirohito to Debate on Visits to Japan War Shrine" (July 21, 2006)
• The Guardian: "Hirohito Shunned War Criminal Shrine" (July 20, 2006)
• Council on Foreign Relations: "Japan's Memory Lapses" (December 1, 2003)

Legacy

• The Times: "Riot Fears Over Hirohito Film" (July 29, 2006) 
• CounterPunch: "Hirohito's Ghost: Japan's New Militarists" (July 27, 2006)
• BBC News: "Japan Names Day After Hirohito" (May 14, 2005)
• JPRI: "Emperor Hirohito in 20th Century History: The Debate Rekindles" (June, 2003) 

Empress Kōjun

• Wikipedia: Empress Kōjun
• BBC News: "Japan Mourns Empress Nagako" (July 25, 2000)
• New York Times: " Dowager Empress Nagako, Hirohito's Widow, Dies at 97" (June 17, 2000)
• CNN: "Japan's Empress Dowager Nagako Dies" (June 16, 2000 )

Hirohito Images and Media

• Google Video: Hirohito and Higashikuni Speeches Before the Diet (Time 07:56)
• YouTube: Hirohito Dies (Time 01:41)
• Google Image Search: Hirohito
• Yahoo! Image Search: Hirohito
• Live Search Images: Hirohito

Hirohito Books and Research

• United Nations University: "The Second World War and Japanese Historical Memory" (August 12, 2003)
• Institute of Oriental Philosophy: "Nichiren Thought in Modern Japan" (November 1, 2000) (54KB)  
• Japan-Asia Quarterly Review: "The Roots of Subservience" (1989) (1.16MB) 
• Google Books: Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan
• Amazon: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan 

Hirohito Blogs and Message Boards

• Axis History Forum: Kaneko Fumiko and Assassination Attempt on Prince Hirohito 
• Japanese History Group Blog: Yasukuni: Why the Emperor Stopped Going

Hirohito Timeline

• 1901: April 29, Prince Michi, known in the west a Hirohito is born to Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei
• 1908-1914: Hirohito attends Gakushuin Peers School
• 1912: July 30, Emperor Meiji dies, making Hirohito heir apparent
• 1914-1921: Attends the Tōgū-gogakumonsho, a special institute for the crown prince
• 1916: November 2, Hirohito is named crown prince
• 1921: November 29, Named regent of Japan
• 1921: Hirohito takes a tour of Europe, becoming the first Japanese crown prince to travel outside Japan
• 1924: January 26, Hirohito marries Kuni Nagako
• 1926: December 25, Hirohito assumes the thrown, ending the Taishō era and beginning the Shōwa era
• 1931: Japan invades Manchuria
• 1936: February 26, Hirohito suppresses a military coup led by his brother
• 1937: Japan moves on from Manchuria, initiating the Second Sino-Japanese War
• 1941: September 4, The Japanese Cabinet, decides to go to war with the Allied Forces
• 1941: November 3, Osami Nagano introduces a plan for attack on Pearl Harbor
• 1941: December 7, After receiving approval from the emperor, Japanese forces attack Pearl Harbor
• 1942: June 4, The Battle of Midway signifies a turning point of Japanese dominance in World War II
• 1945: August 9, Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• 1945: August 10, The "Imperial Rescript Ending the War" is drafted
• 1945: August 14, A message is sent from Japan, accepting the terms of the Potsdam Declaration
• 1945: August 15, Hirohitos' Surrender Speech is broadcast in Japan
• 1946: January 1, On the insistence of Douglas MacArthur, Hirohito retains the thrown
• 1978: Upon suspicion that it contains the remains of war criminals, Hirohito boycotts Yasukuni Shrine
• 1989: January 7, Emperor Hirohito dies and assumes his imperial name Shōwa Tennō

Hirohito Satire and Humor

• Rotten Library: Hirohito 
• William Gropper: Hirohito Cartoon
• Picture Histroy: Axis Leaders Cartoon
• Dartmouth College: Dr. Seuss Hirohito Cartoon
• University of California San Diego: Hirohito Political Cartoon