At noon on August 15, 1945 Tokyo time the divine voice of 44 year old Hirohito was heard for the first time in history by the subjects of the Empire of the Rising Sun: the radio message (recorded and broadcast on disk) informed acceptance of the Japanese surrender against the Americans. The military caste Japan tried to prevent the transmission, which he considered humiliating.
But the descent to earth through the ether of the divine figure of the Tenno was used to hold together and united the people defeated, including the reference to "cruel and new type of bomb that the enemy has decided to employ, and whose power of destruction is incalculable "(ie the atoms).
But the descent to earth through the ether of the divine figure of the Tenno was used to hold together and united the people defeated, including the reference to "cruel and new type of bomb that the enemy has decided to employ, and whose power of destruction is incalculable "(ie the atoms).
