Japan’s Hirohito ‘prevented from voicing remorse over war’

In this January 1940 photo, then Emperor Hirohito, center, rides a horse in Tokyo. Japan’s NHK television obtained documents showing that former Emperor Hirohito repeatedly felt sorry about World War II and tried, although unsuccessfully, to express his feelings by using the word “remorse” in a 1952 speech. The records of conversations with Hirohito spanning nearly five years were kept by Michiji Tajima, a former top member of the Imperial Household Agency, who took office after the war.

The 18 notebooks, written by Michiji Tajima, a top official at the Imperial Household Agency, featured dialogue between him and Hirohito between 1949 and 1953.According to the documents, the emperor said in 1952: “No matter what, I really think I need to include the word remorse” in his planned speech to mark Japan’s regaining of its independence later that year.

But then prime minister Shigeru Yoshida opposed the emperor’s plan to publicly express regret and remorse, telling Tajima: “There is a danger that people will say he was responsible for starting the war.” Hirohito, who died in 1989, is the grandfather of Emperor Naruhito, 59, who ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne inEmperor Hirohito was once worshipped as a living demigod and served as Japan’s commander-in-chief during its march across Asia in the 1930s and 1940s.

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