The speeches of the emperors

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).

Earthquake in Japan, off 11 nuclear power plants

The government of Japan has decided to declare an emergency on nuclear energy. The measure was announced in the case of radioactive leaks from nuclear plants or failures in the cooling system. This would not have occurred but the level of fear is high and the level of radiation at the 'number one nuclear power plant in Fukushima is on the rise.

The eleven central atom 'next to the disaster areas have been closed then, half of them due to lock automatically controlled. The IAEA, the International Agency for Atomic Energy, has assured that the extinguishing operations were completed successfully and safely and that the installation of Onagawa was extinguished a fire in a turbine.